Manual of the Alhany Institute. 325 



§ 5. If at any regular meeting of the Institute for the 

 election of officers, any or either of the Departments 

 constituting the Institute shall not continue organized 

 or be in any way dissolved, such officers of the Institute 

 as are hereby declared to be ex officiis from the said De- 

 partments, may be elected by the Institute in the same 

 manner as the other elective officers are directed to be 

 chosen. 



§ 6. Nine members of the Institute, regularly con- 

 vened, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction 

 of business, and five members of either of the Depart- 

 ments regularly convened, shall constitute a quorum 

 for the transaction of business in such department. 



§ 7. The books now belonging to or hereafter coming 

 into the possession of the aforesaid Departments, shall 

 be deposited in the library of the said corporation, and 

 all specimens of natural history or the arts, now or 

 hereafter belonging to or coming into the possession 

 of either of the said departments, shall be deposited in 

 the museum of the said corporation. 



§ 8. The corporation shall have power to make, 

 constitute, ordain and establish such by-laws and regu- 

 lations as they shall judge proper for the election of 

 their officers, for prescribing their respective functions 

 and the mode of discharging the same, for the admis- 

 sion of new members, for the government of the officers 

 and members thereof, for collecting the fines, imposi- 

 tions and annual contributions from the members, for 

 regulating the times and places of meeting, and for 

 managing and directing the affiiirs and concerns of the 

 said corporation. 



§ 9. The legislature may at any time hereafter amend, 

 modify or repeal this act. 



Trans, ix.] 42 



