Records of Meetings 



Special Meeting, July 21, 1908 



The meeting was held in room 309, Borough Hall, New Brighton. 



President Howard R. Bayne in the chair. 



Thirteen members were in attendance. 



The secretary read the following call for the meeting: 



Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences 



A special meeting of the Association will be held at the museum in 

 Borough Hall, on Tuesday evening, July 21, 1908, at 8 o'clock, to act on 

 the proposed amendments to Section 2, Article III of the By-Laws, as 

 stated below. 



By order of the President, 



Arthur Hollick, 



Secretary. 

 The proposed amendments accompanying the call were discussed seria- 

 tim and certain verbal changes were moved and adopted. 



The proposed amendments were then read and adopted as a whole, as 

 follows : 



[Note. — Matter omitted from the original is bracketed [ ] ; new matter 

 is italicised.] 



" Section 2. Active members. Active members shall be 

 members of the Corporation and not less than fifteen years of 

 age. Nominations for active membership shall be made and 

 seconded in writing [at a regular meeting of the Association], 

 and the nominees shall be voted for by ballot at the next [regular] 

 stated meeting of the Board of Trustees or at a special meeting 

 of the Board called for that purpose, and three negative votes 

 shall reject. Each active member shall on election pay an 

 entrance fee of three dollars ($3.00) if elected previous to the 

 [regular] stated meeting of the Board in January, or one dollar 

 and fifty cents ($1.50) if elected at or subsequent to the January 

 meeting and prior to the [regular] stated meeting in April, and 

 thereafter annual dues of three dollars ($3.00) payable at the 

 beginning of each fiscal year. The entrance fee shall be remitted 

 if members be elected at or subsequent to the [regular] stated 

 meeting in April and prior to the annual meeting of the Associa- 

 tion. Active members shall be entitled to vote at all meetings of 



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