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Each Vice-President shall represent in the Society and in the Board of 
Managers a department of geographic science, as follows: 
Geography of the Land; Geography of the Sea; Geography of the Air; 
Geography of Life; Geographic Art ; Commercial Geography. 
The Vice-Presidents shall foster their respective departments within 
the Society ; they shall presen? annually to the Society summaries of the 
work done throughout the world in their several departments. 
They shall be elected to their respective departments by the Society. 
The Treasurer shall have charge of the funds of the Society, shall col- 
lect the dues, and shall disburse under the direction of the Board of 
Managers; he shall make an annual report; and his accounts shall be 
audited annually by a committee of the Society and at such other times 
as the Board of Managers may direct. 
The Secretaries shall record the proceedings of the Society and of the 
Board of Managers ; shall conduct the correspondence of the Society ; 
and shall make an annual report. 
The Board of Managers shall transact all the business of the Society, 
except such as may be presented at the annual meeting. It shall formu- 
late rules for the conduct of its business. Five members of the Board of 
Managers shall constitute a quorum at regular meetings and nine mem- 
bers at special meetings. 
ARTICLE VY. Duss. 
The initiation fee for active members shall be two dollars, payable upon 
notice of election. 
The annual dues of active members shall be five dollar s, and of corre- 
sponding members two dollars. 
The fiscal year and season of the Society shall begin on the first day 
of June and end on the thirty-first day of May, and the annual dues of 
members shall be payable on or before the last day of October, or, in the 
case of new members, within thirty days after election. 
Annual dues may be commuted and life membership acquired by the 
payment of fifty dollars. 
No member in arrears shall vote at the annual meeting, and the names 
of members two years in arrears shall be dropped from the roll of mem- 
bership. 
ARTICLE VI. Meetings. 
Regular meetings of the Society shall be held on alternate Fridays, from 
November until May, and excepting the annual meeting they shall be 
devoted to communications. The Board of Managers shall, however, 
have power to postpone or omit meetings, when deemed desirable. Spe- 
cial meetings may be called by the President. 
The annual meeting for the election of officers shall be the last regular 
meeting in May. 
The Board of Managers shall set apart a time and place for the annual 
address of the President and Vice-Presidents. 
A quorum for the transaction of business shall consist of twenty-five 
active members. 
