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Section 11. The officers of the Academy and the Departmeats shall hold 

 their respective offices for the term of three years aad until their successors 

 are elected. 



Section 12. The first election of officers under this Constitution shall be 

 by its members at the first meeting of the Academy. 



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

 after the first election, as likewise the frequency, place and date of all meet- 

 ings, shall be prescribed in the By-Laws of the Academy, which shall be 

 framed and adopted by the General Council. 



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

 no expenses incurred for any person or object whatever, except under the 

 authority of the Council. 



relating to amendments. 



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

 be submitted in writing at a regular meeting; and if two-thirds of the mem- 

 bers 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 

 divided into the Department of the Mechanic Arts and the Department of 

 the Fine Arts." Passed February 14, 1876. 



