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SECTiOiSr 11. The officers of the Academy and t!ie Departments shall liold their 

 respective offices for the term of three yeiirs and until iheirsucceRsoi-a are elected. 



yKCTiON 12. The tir.st election of officers under this Constitution shall be by its 

 members at the first nieetmg of the Academy. 



Section 13. The duties of the officers and the mode of tlieir election, after the 

 first election, as likewise the frequency, place and date of all meetings, shall be pre- 

 scribed in the By-i.aws of the Academy, which ^hall be framed and adopted by the 

 General Council. 



Section 14. No compensation shall be paid to any person whatever, and no ex- 

 penses incurred for any person or object whatever, except under the authority of the 

 Council. 



EELATING TO AMENDMENTS. 



Section 15. Every proposition to alter or amend this constitution shall be sub- 

 mittted in writing at a regular meeting; and if two thirds of the members present at 

 the next regular meeting vote in the affirmative, it shall be adopted. 



AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION. 



Amendment to Section 3: " The Department of the Arts shall be hereafter di- 

 vided into the Department of the Mechanic Arts and the Department of the Fine 

 Arts.'' . Passed February 14, 1876. 



BY-LAWS. 



election of members. 



1. Candidates for membership must be proposed in writing, by a member, to the 

 General Council and refined to a Committee on Nominations", which Cummhtee 

 may noniinate to the Academy. A majority vote shall elect. Honorary and cor- 

 responding members must be persons who have rendered some marked 'service to 

 Science, the Arts, or Letters, or to the Academy. 



ELECTION of OFFICERS. 



2. All officers of the Academy shall be elected by ballot. 



MEETINGS. 



3. The regular meetings of the Academy shall be held as follows: 



On the 2d Tuesday in February, at the seat of the Academy; and in July, at 

 such place and exact date as shall be fixed by the Council; the first named to be 

 the Annual Meeting. The hour shall be designated by the Secretary in the notice 

 of the meeting. At any regular meeting, ten members.^hall constitute a quorum for 

 the transaction of business. Special meetings may be called by the President at his 

 discretion, or by iv-quest of any five members of the General Council. 



DUTIES OF OFFICEES. 



4. The President, Vice-President, Secretaries, Treasurer, Director of the Museum 

 and Librarian shall perform the duties usually appertaining to their respective of- 

 fices, or such as shall be required by the Council. The Treasurer shall give such 

 security as shall be satisfactory to the Council, and pay sucii rate of interest' on funds 

 held by him as the Council shall determine. Five members of the General Council 

 shall constitute a quorum. 



