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Article II. — Of officers and their duties. 



Section 1. It shall be the duty of the president, in addition to the ordinary duties 

 of a presiding oiBcer, to prepare and deliver an annual address, to be delivered at 

 the annual meeting over which he presides. 



Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the secretary to provide the necessary stationery 

 and such books as he may be directed to provide, the expenses for which shall be 

 met by an assessment of not less than 25 cents on the members in attendance at the 

 meetings. The sum so collected shall be used by the secretary to reimburse himself 

 for advances made and to meet the ordinary expenses of the association. An account 

 shall be rendered at each annual meeting, and, if needed, an additional assessment 

 shall be imposed. 



Sec. 3. All officers shall be elected by ballot after open nomination, and this by- 

 law shall not be suspended except by unanimous consent of the voting members 

 present. 



Article III. — Of meetings. 



Section 1. Notice of the time and place of meetings shall be published in all the 

 American entomological periodicals and in Insect Life. 



Sec. 2. Special meetings shall be called as provided for in the constitution, and 

 notice of such meetings shall be given by the secretary by mailing to each voting 

 member a formal specification of the time and place of meeting at least two weeks 

 before the date fixed in the notice. The notice shall state the reason for such 

 meeting, and shall specify the business to be transacted, and no other business shall 

 be transacted. 



Sec. 3. The order of business at regular meetings shall be, at the first session: 



(1) Calling the meeting to order by the president. 



(2) The annual address by the president. 



(3) Reports of officers. 



(4) Reports of committees. 



(5) Proposal and election of members. 



(6) Written business communications. 



(7) Verbal business communications. 



(8) New business. 



(9) Programme of papers and discussions. 



(10) Adjournment. 



At the following sessions: 



(1) Beading and action on the minutes of previous meetings. 



(2) Unfinished business. 



(3) Proposal and election of members. 



(4) New business. 



(5) Programme of papers and discussions. 



(6) Adjournment. 



At the last session of the meeting the order of business shall be as at other sessions, 

 except that after order (5) will come: 



(6) Election of ofiicers for the next meeting. 



(7) Fixing time and place of next meeting. 



(8) Reading and action on rough minutes of the entire session. 



(9) Final adjournment. 



Article l\. — Amendments to by-laws. 



Section 1. Changes in these by-laws may be made at any regular meeting in the 

 same manner and on the same notice aa prescribed in the constitution for amend- 

 ments to that instrument. 



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