CONSTITUTION. 7 



cording secretary, a treasurer, five curators, and a librarian, who 

 shall be chosen annually on the fourth Monday in February.^ 

 The president, vice-presidents and secretaries shall be fellows. 

 There shall also be elected, at the same time, a finance com- 

 mittee of three. 



Article VII. 



There shall be elected at the annual meeting six members, at 

 least three of whom shall be fellows, who, together with the 

 president, the vice-president, the two secretaries, and the treas- 

 urer, shall constitute a Council, by whom all business, to be 

 brought before the Academy, shall ordinarily be prepared. 

 Vacancies occurring in the offices or in the Council of the 

 Academy in the interval between the annual elections, may be 

 filled for the unexpired term by special election at any regular 

 business meeting, provided notice of such election shall have 

 been given at a previous regular business meeting. 



Article VIII. 



The election of officers and of the Council shall be by ballot, 

 and the candidates having the greatest number of votes shall be 

 declared duly elected. 



Article IX. 



Five members at an ordinary meeting shall form a quorum, 

 and ten at a special or business meeting, a majority of whom, 

 in either case, shall be fellows. 



Article X. 



By-laws for the further regulation of the Society may from 

 time to time be made. 



Article XI. 



^ No alteration shall be made in this Constitution, unless by 

 a vote to that effect of three-fourths of the fellows and three- 

 fourths of the resident members entitled to vote under Article V. 



1 See eighth line of Section 3 of the Charter. 



1 This clause must be taken in connectiori with Section 5 of the Charter, which 

 requires a previous request in writing of one-third of all the resident members 

 (which must be considered in this case as includtng fellows, as that class of mem- 

 bers was not in existence at the time the Charter was granted), submitted one 

 month previous to any vote being taken. 



