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its call for the annual conventions of the association not less than sixty days before 
the date on which they are to be held and, for special meetings, not less than ten 
days before such date. It shall be charged with the general arrangements and con- 
duct of all meetings called by it. It shall designate the time and place of the conven- 
tion; it shall present a well-prepared order of business — of subjects for discussion — 
and shall provide and arrange for the meetings of the several sections. The subjects 
provided for consideration by each section at any convention of the association shall 
concentrate the deliberations of the sections upon not more than two lines of discus- 
sion, which lines as far as possible shall be related. Xot more than one-third of the 
working time of any annual convention of the association shall be confined to mis- 
cellaneous business. 
FINANCES. 
At every annual convention the association, in general session, shall provide for 
obtaining the funds necessary for its legitimate expenses, and may, by appropriate 
action, call for contributions upon the several institutions eligible to membership; 
and no institution shall be entitled to representation or participation in the benefits 
of the association unless such institution shall have made the designated contribution 
for the year previous to that in and for which such question of privilege shall arise, 
or shall have said payment remitted by the unanimous vote of the executive com- 
mittee. 
AMENDMENTS. 
This constitution may by amended at any regular convention of the association by 
a two-thirda vote of the delegates present, if the number constitute a quorum: Pro- 
ri'h '/. That notice of any proposed amendment, together with the full text thereof 
and the name of the mover, shall have been given at the next preceding annual con- 
vention and repeated in the call for the convention. Every such proposition of 
amendment shall be subject to modification or amendment in the same manner as 
other propositions, and the final vote on the adoption or rejection shall be taken by 
yeas and nays of the institutions then and there represented. 
Rules of Order. 
(1) The executive committee shall be charged with the order of business subject 
to special action of the convention, and this committee may report at any time. 
(2) All business or topics proposed for discussion and all resolutions submitted for 
consideration of the convention shall be read and then referred, without debate, to 
the executive committee, to be assigned positions on tlie programme. 
(3) Speakers invited to open discussion shall be entitled to twenty minutes each. 
(4) In general discussions the ten-minute rule shall be enforced. 
(5) No speaker shall be recognized a second time on any one subject while any 
delegate who has not spoken thereon desires to do so. 
(6) The hours of meeting and adjournment adopted with the general programme 
shall be closely observed, unless changed by a two-thirds vote of the delegates 
present. 
(7) The presiding officer shall enforce the parliamentary rules usual in such assem- 
blies and not inconsistent with the foregoing. 
(8) Vacancies which may arise in the membership of standing committees by 
death, resignation, or separation from the association, of members, shall be filled by 
the committees, respectively. 
