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ARTICLE IJ.—ASSESSMENTS. 
SECTION 1. Active members shall be subject to an annual assess- 
ment of five dollars, payable on the first Tuesday in April of each 
year, but no assessment shall be required of any member for the 
current year in which he is elected. 
SECTION 2. The President and Treasurer together shall be 
empowered to exempt (sub szlentio) a member from assessment, 
when, from peculiar circumstances, they may deem it for the interest 
of the Society so to do. 
ARTICLE IIJ.—OFFICERS AND THEIR DUTIEs. 
Section 1. The President shall preside at the meetings of 
the Society, and of the Executive Board, and perform such other 
duties as usually pertain to the office. 
SECTION 2. The Vice-Presidents shall perform the duties of 
the President in his absence, in the order of seniority in office. 
SECTION 3. The Secretary shall record and preserve correct 
minutes of the proceedings of the Society and the Executive Board, 
in books to be kept for that purpose; shall have the charge of all 
records belonging to the Society; shall notify members of their 
election, and committees of their appointment; shall call special 
meetings when directed by the President; and shall notify all 
active members of all meetings, and officers of all matters which 
shall occur at any meeting requiring their action. He shall also 
conduct the correspondence of the Society, and shall keep a rec- 
ord thereof, shall keep the common seal, acknowledge all donations, 
and receive and read to the Society all communications addressed 
to it. He shall collect all fees and assessments and immediately 
pay the same over to the Treasurer, with a specific and detailed 
statement of the sources from whence derived. He shall notify 
members who are in arrears, of their indebtedness to the Society, 
and report all delinquencies to the Executive Board when required. 
Bond, with securities, may be required of the Secretary for the 
faithful discharge of this duty, in such sum as may be deemed sat- 
isfactory by the Executive Board. 
SEcTION 4. The Treasurer shall have charge of all money or 
other property of the Society, excepting the Museum and its con- 
tents, and excepting also such property as may be placed by the 
Society or the Executive Board in the hands of the Trustees; he 
shall also have charge of the net income of the funded property of 
