MEETINGS. 
(1) This Association shall hold at least one meeting in every calendar year, to be 
designated as the annual convention of the Association. Special meetings may he 
held at other times, upon the call of the executive committee, for purposes to he 
specified in the call. 
(2) The annual convention of the Association shall comprise general sessions and 
meetings of the sections, and provision shall he made therefor in the programme. 
The section meetings may he simultaneous or otherwise, at the discretion of the execu- 
tive committee, hut at least two sections of the Association, to he designated each 
year by the executive committee, shall present in general session of each conven- 
tion a portion of the subjects coming before them. 
OFFICERS. 
(1) The general officers of this Association shall be a president, five vice-presidents, 
a bibliographer, and a secretary, who shall also be treasurer. The president, junior 
ex-president, the secretary, and four persons to be chosen by the Association, shall 
constitute an executive committee, which shall elect its own chairman. 
(2) Each section shall, by ballot, nominate to the Association in general session, 
for its action, a chairman and a secretary for such section. 
(3) Officers shall be chosen by ballot at the annual convention of the Association, 
and shall hold office from the close of the convention at which they are elected uutil 
their successors shall be chosen. 
(4) Any person being an accredited delegate to an annual meeting of the Associa- 
tion, or an officer of an institution which is a member of the Association in full 
standing at the time of election, shall be eligible to office. 
DUTIES OF OFFICERS. 
(1) The officers of the Association shall perform the duties which usually devolve 
upon their respective offices. 
(2) The president shall deliver an address at the annual convention before the 
Association in general session. 
(3) The chairman of each section shall make, at the annual convention, a report to 
the Association in general session of the progress during the preceding year of the 
subject or subjects appertaining to his section, and such reports shall not occupy 
more than twenty minutes each. 
(4) The executive committee shall determine the time and place of the annual con- 
ventions and other meetings of the Association, and shall, between such conventions 
and meetings, act for the Association in all matters of business. It shall issue 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 arrangement and conduct of 
all meetings called by it. It shall designate the two sections to present in general 
session a portion of the subjects coming before them, and shall give notice thereof 
to the chairmen of such sections at least ninety days prior to the annual convention. 
It shall provide a well-prepared order of business and a programme of exercises, and 
shall make a seasonable issue of said programme. Said committee may fill any 
vacancy in an office or committee of the Association occurring after the adjournment 
of the annual convention, such appointee to serve until the next annual election. 
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 
