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PROCEEDINGS OF 
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after their election shall render such election void. Each resident member shall 
pay to the Treasurer five dollars on his admission ; and five dollars on the first 
Monday of January of each year thereafter, to aid in defraying necessary expenses, 
and for such other purposes as the Board of Management may direct. 
Art. XIII. No resident member shall vote at any stated meeting of the Insti¬ 
tute, on any question whatever, who has not paid his subscription and annual dues, 
or who shall not have attended a meeting of the Institute within one year previous 
to such meeting. 
Art. XIV. The institute shall have power to appoint Curators and others for 
the preservation and arrangement of its collections. The resident and correspond¬ 
ing members shall exert themselves to procure specimens of natural history, &c.; 
and the said specimens shall be placed in the Cabinet, under the superintendence 
of a Curator or Curators, so appointed. All such specimens, &c., unless deposited 
specially, shall remain in the Cabinet, and, in case of the dissolution of the Insti¬ 
tute, shall become the property of the United States. 
Art. XV. The resident members of the Institute shall be divided into such De¬ 
partments as may hereafter be determined upon. The members composing each 
department shall especially be charged with the subjects embraced therein, and 
communicate to the Institute the result of their inquiries; but every member shall 
have the privilege of making such communications as he may think proper on any 
subject connected with the designs of the Institute. 
Art. XVI. The various collections of the Institute shall be placed in the 
apartments which may be designed for that purpose by a majority of the Direc¬ 
tors. 
Art. XVII. This Constitution, with the exceptions of Articles 6, 8, 10, 14, and 
18, or so much thereof as relates to the office of Directors, their duties, privileges, 
or powers, or the purposes or place of keeping of the collections of the Institute, 
shall be subject to alterations and additions at any meeting of the Institute, provi¬ 
ded notice of a motion for such alteration or addition shall have been given and 
recorded at a preceding regular meeting. No alterations or amendments shall ever 
be made in the articles above excepted, without the consent of a majority of the 
Directors. 
Art. XVIII. A code of by-laws for the regulation of the business of the Board 
of Management, and the annual and other meetings of the Institute, and for mat¬ 
ters relating to non-attendance, privileges, duties of officers, &c., shall be prepared 
by a committee to be appointed for that purpose. 
BY-LAWS.. 
ARTICLE I. 
Sec. 1. The Recording Secretary shall give at least two weeks notice, in two or 
more of the newspapers published in the City of Washington, of every annual 
meeting. 
Sec. 2. Stated and special meetings shall be called by or through the Recording 
Secretary. 
Sec. 3. A quorum to do business shall consist of at least ten resident members 
entitled to a vote. 
Sec. 4. A member introducing a stranger shall hand his name and place of re¬ 
sidence, in writing, to the presiding officer. 
Sec. 5. The order of business at stated meetings shall be as follows, viz: 1. 
Reading the minutes. 2. Nomination of candidates for membership. 3. Election 
of candidates. 4. Notice of contributions and deposites. 5. Reading reports and 
communications—I. From officers of the Board of Management. II. From De¬ 
partments. III. From Committees. IV. From individual members—( a ,) Hon¬ 
orary. (&.) Corresponding. (c.) Resident. 6. Extraordinary business. 
Sec. 6. At the annual meeting, the election of officers shall succeed to the 
reading of reports. 
Sec. 7. At special meetings, the object for which the meeting was called shall 
have precedence of all other matters after the reading of the minutes. 
Sec. 8. A suspension, of the regular order of business for a specific purpose may, 
at any time, be had, two-thirds of the resident members present, who are entitled to 
a vote, concurring therein. 
