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until a year after the expiration of their terms, a Corresponding 
Secretary, a Recording Secretary, a Treasurer, and an Execu- 
tive Committee of seven, which, with the officers before named, 
shall decide upon the place of meeting and transact such other 
business as may be necessary when the Association is not in 
session.* 
ARTICLE IV.—MEETINGS. 
The regular meetings of the Association shall be held once a 
year, the time and place being decided upon at the previous 
meeting. | 
ARTICLE V.~CHANGING THE CONSTITUTION. 
The Constitution of the Society may be amended, altered, or 
repealed, by a two-thirds vote of the members present at any 
regular meeting. 
[The revised Constitution may be found in reports 1879, page 
61, and 1880, page 66. All honorary members were abolished 
in the third report, page 5, and the Constitution was amended to 
allow of the appointment of such members at the tenth annual 
meeting (page 3). The “Order of Business” adopted by the 
Association witl be found in the reports for 1877, page 7; 1878, 
pages 3 and 116; 1879, page 51; 1882, page 4.| 
* This is not the exact wording of the Constitution, but it is the spirit of it. The original 
Constitution does not mention an Executive Committee. One is provided for in an amend- 
ment in the first report, page ro, and is afterward increased from three to five, (Third Report, 
page 5), and again to seven (Seventh Report, page 76). It has been the custom for the Presi- 
dent, Vice-President, Secretaries and Treasurer to be members, ex eficio, of the Executive 
Committee, and such a law may have been passed. If so, I have missed it. Be Me 
+ In the published reports there is no record of any date of meeting, so fixed. The first re- 
ference to such mode of appointing dates of meeting will be found at the close of the fifth an- 
nual meeting of the Association in New York, February 8th, 1876 (Fifth Report, page 7c. DHE 
second reference to this clause will be found in the report of the special meeeting of the Asso- 
ciation in Philadelphia, February 14th and rsth, 1877, page 9. The third date of meeting ap- 
pointed is left indefinite as to the days, but indicates February, 1879 (Report of Seventh Annual 
Meeting, February 27th and 28th, 1878, page 118). In the proceedings of the eighth meeting, 
February 2zsth and 26th, 1879, it will be seen that (page 60) ‘‘ the meeting adjourned to meet 
again in March or April, 1880, at the call of the Executive Committee.’’ In the proceedings of 
the ninth annual meeting, page 65, these words occur: ‘‘the meeting then adjourned to next 
year, the date to be fixed at some future time by the Executive Committee.’ The report of 
the tenth annual meeting merely says: ‘‘The meeting adjourned.’’ The eleventh report does 
not mention the adjournment, while the last one, June 7th, 1883, page 76, says: “The meeting 
then adjourned.”’? This appears to me to sanction the appointing of the time and place of meet- 
ings by the Executive Committee. Bs Vs 
