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ESSEX INSTITUTE. 



CHAPTER I. 

 OF MEMBERS. 



Members only shall be entitled to vote or be eligible to 

 any office. 



No person residing in this county can be a correspondent; 

 a member on removing from this county may become a 

 correspondent, on giving notice thereof and paying all 

 arrears ; and a correspondent cannot continue such after 

 removing permanently into the county — but may become 

 a member. 



No member who shall be in arrears for one year, shall 

 be entitled to vote or be eligible to any office ; and if any 

 one so in arrears shall refuse or neglect to liquidate his dues 

 within six months after being duly notified, he shall cease 

 to be a member of the Institute. 



The yearly assessment is payable at the annual meeting 

 in May. 



CHAPTER n. 

 OF OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES. 



The President, and in his absence one of the Vice-Presi- 

 dents, shall preside at all meetings, and regulate the order 

 thereof. 



One of the Vice-Presidents with three Curators shall be 

 a committee to manage and superintend the Historical 

 Department. One of the Vice-Presidents, with three Cura- 

 tors, the department of Natural History. The other Vice- 

 President with three Curators, the department of Horticul- 



