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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 
Upon such application being made, the Academy may estab- 
lish the Department by the enactment of a clause additional to 
Article XXI. of this chapter, designating the name of the 
Department. If the Department be thus created the names of 
the petitioners shall be entered on the record of Proceedings as 
its founders. 
Art. IV. The officers of each Department shall be a Director, 
a Vice Director, a Recorder, a Treasurer, and a Conservator, 
■who shall be elected at the first meeting of the department, and 
subsequently at the first meeting in December of every year. 
Art. V. None others than members of the Academy shall be 
members of any one of its Departments. 
Art. VI. Each Department, formed as herein provided, shall 
elect its own officers and members. 
Art. VIL Every candidate for admission into a Department 
shall be proposed, in "writing, by two of its members at one 
meeting, and be balloted for at the meeting next succeeding. 
The affirmative vote of three-fourths shall be necessary to elect 
a candidate, but no election of members or of officers of a De- 
partment shall be valid, unless there be present at the meeting 
at least six legal voters. 
Art. VIII. Every member elect shall pay to the Treasurer 
of the Department an initiation fee and a semi-annual contribu- 
tion, the amount of which shall be determined by the members 
of the Department, provided that a Department shall not as- 
sess its members at a rate exceeding two dollars initiation and 
two dollars semi-annual contribution. In other respects, the 
By-Laws, (Chapter II.) which govern the " election of members 
and correspondents " of the Academy, shall apply also to the 
election of members of any of its Departments. 
Art. IX. Members of a Department may resign or be ex- 
pelled from it, in conformity to the By-Laws of the Academy, 
(Chapter IV.) 
Art. X. The By-Laws (Chapter V.) which apply to the offi- 
cers of the Academy, shall apply also to analogous officers of 
each Department, except the Treasurer of a Department, who 
shall collect and have charge of its funds, but shall disburse no 
money or monies except by the affirmative votes of the Depart- 
ment, vouched for by the signature of its Director and Becorder ; 
[March, 
