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11. On the Society being informed of the death of a member, the fact 

 shall be entered on the records, and a member may be appointed to pre- 

 pare an obituary notice of the deceased. 



12. The obituary notices of members shall be read to the Society, and 

 they shall be bound together whenever they are sufficiently numerous to 

 form a volume. 



That in the place of this, Chapter I shall read as follows : 

 CHAPTER I. 



OP THE MEMBERS, AND MANNER OP THEIR ELECTION. 



Section 1. The election of members shall be by ballot, and shall 

 form part of the stated business of the meetings on the third Fridays of 

 February, May, October and December. 



No other business shall be transacted at such meetings until the ballot- 

 ing for the election of members is completed and the result thereof 

 reported to the Society. 



Section 3. A Committee on Nominations to consist of five members 

 of the Society, not members of tlie Board of Officers and Council, shall 

 be chosen by ballot on the third Friday of October in each year, to which 

 Committee shall be referred all nominations of candidates for member- 

 ship, and it shall consider and report from the lists of nominations so 

 referred such persons as said Committee may deem worthy of election to 

 membership. To make such recommendations the vote of the said Com- 

 mittee shall, for each person recommended, be unanimous. 



The names of the persons so recommended for membership shall be 

 posted in a convenient place for inspection in the hall of the Society for 

 three weeks preceding the election of members. 



Section 3. A member may, at any meeting, nominate in writing a 

 candidate for membership, and the nomination so made may, in like 

 manner, be concurred in by other members. 



The nomination paper may contain a statement of the grounds upon 

 which the proposed candidate is deemed worthy of membership, or may 

 state merely his name, residence and occupation. Tlie nomination 

 papers shall be filed with the Secretaries and by them be immediately 

 transmitted to the Committee on Nominations, be recorded in a book to 

 be called the " Record of Nominations," and be reported to the Society 

 at its next stated meeting and entered on the minutes. 



Section 4. At the election o( members at least twenty members shall 

 be required for a quorum and any person recommended by tlie Committee 

 on Nominations having a majority of tlie votes of the members present 

 shall be deemed to be duly elected. 



Section 5. The election shall be held by two tellers, to be appointed 

 by the presiding member, who shall receive and count the votes and 

 make report to the Society of the result of Ibe election. 



