vi CONSTITUTION. 
ARTICLE V. 
The officers of the Society shall be a President; two Vice: 
Presidents, first and second; a Corresponding Secretary ; a Re- 
cording Secretary and Clerk ; a Treasurer; a Librarian; ——— 
Curators, and a Cabinet Keeper; who, together, shall form s 
Board for the management of the concerns of the institution, ana 
be called the Council. 
ARTICLE VI. 
. Officers shall be chosen by ballot, and a majority of votes shall 
be sufficient for a choice. 
ARTICLE VII. 
By-laws, for the more particular regulation of the Society, shall 
from time to time be made. 
ARTICLE VIII. 
This Constitution may be altered or amended in any of the pre- 
ceding articles, by a vote to that effect, of three fourths of the 
members present at any two consecutive meetings of the Society, 
the members having been first duly notified of any proposed alter- 
ation : but the article which immediately follows this shall be 
unalterable. 
s ARTICLE IX. ; 
The consent of every member shall be necessary to a dissolution 
of the Society. In case of a dissolution, the property of the Society 
shall not be distributed among the members, but donors may claim 
and receive such donations as they have made to the museum, and 
the remainder shall be given to some public institution, on such se 
ditions as may then be agreed on; and the faithful performance 0* 
such conditions shall be secured by bonds, with sufficient penalties 
for the non-fulfilment thereof. 
