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7. The officers shall be a President, Secretary, who shall also act 
as Treasurer, and two managers. They shall be elected by ballot by 
a plurality of votes cast, blanks for that purpose being sent around 
by the secretary in J anuary of each year. 
8. The secretary shall arrange the members in sections of twelve 
members each. 
9. He shall send a box capable of holding one dozen slides to the 
first member of each section. Each person shall, within four days of 
the date of receiving it, put in a slide, preferably one which illustrates 
some new result of study or method of preparation, and mail the 
package, carefully directed and stamped, to the name and address next 
below his own on the list of members of the section. After completing 
each circuit the box shall be returned to the secretary, who shall start 
it on the next circuit. When it has completed the whole circle of all 
the circuits, it shall be returned to the first circuit again, when each 
member shall remove his own slide and replace it with another, 
mailing the box as before to the next member. 
10. Slides placed in the box must contain no writing. Written 
labels should be soaked off or pasted over, and the slide designated by 
a number to correspond with the number of the owner in the list of 
members of the section. 
The slides are to be very carefully packed in the box, to which is 
securely attached by a string, at a distance of two inches, a tag 
bearing a postage stamp and the address of the next member of the 
section. Nothing is to be placed around or upon the box which could 
invite a blow from the post-office stamp. 
11. If any member should receive a box too much damaged to be 
safely used, or containing broken or damaged slides, or not containing 
the full number of slides indicated by the accompanying memoranda, 
he shall at once notify the secretary and the member who last mailed 
the box. 
If the loss cannot be adjusted by exchange between the owner of 
the slide and the person who mailed it, the damaged slide shall be 
sent to the secretary, who shall compensate the owner, to an extent 
not exceeding one dollar for any one slide, out of any unappropriated 
funds belonging to the club. Cash on hand and in excess of the 
estimated expenses of the current year shall alone be considered 
subject to this claim. Differences of opinion in regard to damages 
shall be referred to the President, whose decision shall be final. 
12. At the same time with the box, and to the same address, shall 
be invariably mailed a letter- package containing a list of members of 
the section and of objects in the box, and blank papers for memoranda, 
remarks, questions and answers, notices of exchanges sought or offered, 
&c. ; also, at the proper times, voting lists for election of officers or 
the transaction of other business. Everything contained in the letter- 
package shall be considered the property of the club, shall only be 
removed therefrom by the secretary, and shall be by him filed or 
published as may seem most advisable. 
13. The letter-package and the box of slides should accompany 
each other, and any member who does not receive either one within three 
days after the receipt of the other, shall promptly notify the secretary. 
