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Section 2. Two months shall be allowed a newly elected 
member within which to qualify by paying to the Treasurer 
dues from and including the month of election to the 1st of Jan- 
uary following, for which a bill shall be sent by the Treasurer. 
Article Y. 
Dues. 
Section 1 . The annual dues of members resident in the Dis¬ 
trict of Columbia shall be three dollars, payable in advance in 
January each year. Dues for newly elected members for a frac¬ 
tional part of a year shall be settled for at the rate of twenty-five 
cents per month. Annual dues may be commuted and life 
membership acquired by the payment at one time of fifty dollars. 
Section 2. A member absent from the District of Columbia 
for twelve consecutive months may, at his own request, be trans¬ 
ferred, by vote of the Executive Committee, to the absent list 
and excused from paying dues, but in such case he shall not be 
entitled to the Bulletin or to notices of meetings. 
Section 3. Members who are more than one year in arrears 
shall be reported by the Treasurer to the Executive Committee, 
which shall have power to order them, by a vote of the committee, 
to be dropped from the rolls. 
Section 4. The fiscal year-of the Society shall end with the 
Annual Meeting. 
Article VI. 
Meetings of the General Committee and Executive Committee . 
All meetings of the General Committee and Executive Com¬ 
mittee shall be held at such places as shall be designated by the 
General Committee in the notices of such meetings sent out by 
the Secretaries. The regular meetings of the Executive Com¬ 
mittee shall be held one-half hour before the regular meetings of 
the Society. 
Article VII. 
Publications. 
Section 1 . The regular publications of the Society shall have 
the form of a series of completed papers or memoirs, to which 
