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CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS 
CONSTITUTION. 
ARTICLE I. 
NAME. 
The name of this organization shall be the Academy of Science 
and Letters of Sioux City. 
ARTICLE II. 
OBJECT. 
The object of the Academy shall be: First, Original investigation 
in Science, History, Sociology, and other branches of useful knowledge 
and the promotion of the study thereof; Second, the publication of 
the Proceedings of the Academy and such original papers as may be 
deemed profitable; Third, the maintenance of a Museum and a 
Library and to provide for public meetings for the delivery of papers 
and lectures. 
ARTICLE III. 
MEMBERSHIP. 
Section 1. The Academy membership shall consist of regular 
members, corresponding members, honorary members, life members, 
and fellows. 
Sec. 2. Candidates for admission to membership, whether as regu- 
lar, or corresponding, or honorary members, must be proposed in 
writing by two members at a business meeting, and be balloted for at 
the next regular meeting, and any candidate receiving three negative 
ballots shall be rejected. 
Sec. 3. A rejected candidate shall be ineligible for membership 
for three months next ensuing. 
Sec. 4. Any member may be expelled or removed from office, 
after due hearing, by a two-thirds vote of the members present at any 
regular meeting, provided, that notice of contemplated action in the 
case shall have been given at the regular meeting next preceding. 
