Constitution 15 
ARTICLE IX 
The Nominating Committee shall be composed of three 
Trustees, to whom shall be first submitted the names of any 
persons proposed as candidates for election to membership in 
the Board of Trustees. The Committee shall report on such 
candidates from time to time, as it may deem to be for the 
interest of the Museum. A fortnight before the annual meet- 
ing they shall prepare and mail to each member of the Board of 
Trustees a list of the candidates for officers and Trustees 
to be balloted for at the said meeting. 
ARTICLE X 
Nine Trustees shall constitute a quorum for the transaction 
of business, but five Trustees meeting may adjourn and trans- 
act current business, subject to the subsequent approval of a 
meeting at which a quorum shall be present. 
ARTICLE XI 
By-Laws may be made from time to time by the Trustees 
providing for the care and management of the property of the 
Corporation and for the government of its affairs, and may 
be amended at any meeting of the Trustees by a vote of a 
majority of those present, after a month’s notice in writing of 
such proposed amendment. 
ARTICLE XII 
Any person contributing or devising $50,000 in cash, securi- 
ties or property to the funds of the Museum may be elected a 
Benefactor of the Museum. 
Any person contributing $10,000 to the funds of the 
Museum, at one time, may be elected an Associate Benefactor 
of the Museum, who after being so elected shall have the 
right in perpetuity to appoint the successor in such associate 
benefactorship. 
Any person contributing $1,000 to the funds of the Museum, 
at one time, may be elected a Patron of the Museum, who 
