342 PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 
Article IV. 
The Annual Meeting. 
Section 1. At the Annual Meeting of the Society the order of 
proceedings shall be announced by the Chair as follows: 
1. Reading the minutes of the last Annual Meeting. 
2. Presentation of annual report of the Secretaries. 
3. Presentation of annual report of Treasurer. 
4. Reading of names of members not in arrears who are 
entitled to vote. 
5. Election of President. 
6. Election of four Vice-Presidents. 
7. Election of Treasurer. 
8. Election of two Secretaries. 
9. Election of nine Members of the General Committee. 
10. Reading of rough minutes of the meeting. 
Section 2. Members in arrears for dues shall not be entitled 
to vote at the Annual Meeting. 
Section 3. The election of officers shall be conducted in the 
following manner: As each class of offices is reached, nomina¬ 
tions shall be made by a single preliminary informal ballot, the 
result of which shall be announced by the Secretary. On the 
informal nominating ballot for President but one name will be 
written by the voter; on that for Vice-Presidents, four names; on 
that for Secretaries, two names; on that for Treasurer, one name; 
and on that for Members of the General Committee, nine names. 
If the informal balloting for any office or offices shall show a ma¬ 
jority vote in favor of any person or persons for the office or 
offices under consideration, the ballot as to such person or persons 
as shall have received the highest number of majority votes cast 
(to the number of the offices to be filled) may, on motion and a 
viva voce vote, be made formal, and such person or persons be 
declared duly elected. All offices in any class not filled by the 
process of making the informal nominating ballot formal as 
hereinabove authorized, shall, immediately after the taking of 
the informal ballot, be filled by balloting in the usual way, each 
ballot being taken for the number of persons needed to fill the 
