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EIGHTH REPORT. 
nnhliraHnT« ET n A f E Ti, Un A leS A ° ther provlsion be made . shall also act as Editor of the 
publications of the Academy and as Librarian and Custodian of property 
5. The Treasurer shall have the custody of all funds of the Academy. He 
beep account of receipts and disbursements in detail, and this account 
shall be audited as hereinafter provided. 
6. The Academy may elect an Editor to supervise all matters connected with 
the publication of the transactions of the Academy, under the direction of the 
Council, and to perform the duties of Librarian until such' time as the Academy 
shall make that an independent office. 
7. The Council is clothed with executive authority, and with the legislative 
powers of the Academy in the intervals between the latter’s meetings; but no 
extraordinary act of the Council shall remain in force beyond the next following 
stated meeting, without ratification by the Academy. The Council shall have 
control of the publications of the Academy, under the provisions of the By-Laws 
and of the resolutions from time to time adopted. It shall receive nominations 
tor members, and on approval, shall submit such nominations to the Academy 
for action. It shall have power to fill vacancies ad interim in any of the offices 
of the Academy. 
8. Terms oe Office, The President and Treasurer shall be elected annually, 
and shall not be eligible to re-election for an interval of three years after re¬ 
tiring from office. The Vice Presidents, Secretary, and the Editor shall be elected 
annually and be eligible to re-election without limitation. [Section 8 was amended 
Apiil 1, 1898, to read as follows: The President, Vice Presidents, Secretary, 
Treasurer, and Editor shall be elected annually, and be eligible to re-election 
without limitation.] 
ARTICLE V : Voting and Elections. 
1. All elections shall be by ballot. To elect a Resident Member, Corresponding 
Member, Honorary Member, or Patron or impose any special tax shall require the 
assent of three-fourths of all Resident Members voting. 
2. . Any member may be expelled by a vote of nine-tenths of all members voting,, 
provided notice that such a movement is contemplated be given at a meeting of 
the Academy three months previous to such action. 
3. Election of Members. Nominations for Resident membership shall be made 
by two Resident Members, according to a form to be provided by the Council. 
One of these Resident Members must be personally acquainted with the nominee 
and his qualifications for membership. The Council shall submit the nominations- 
received by them, if approved, to a vote of the Academy at a regular meeting. 
4. Election of Officers. Nominations for office shall be made by the Council 
as provided in the By-Laws. The nominations shall be submitted to a vote of the 
Academy at its winter [Annual] meeting. The officers thus elected shall enter 
upon duty at the adjournment of the meeting. 
5. _ At the meeting in which this Constitution is adopted the officers for the 
ensuing year shall be elected in such manner as the Academy may determine. 
ARTICLE VI: Meetings. 
Academy shall hold at least two stated meetings a year—a Summer for 
Field] Meeting and a Winter [or Annual ] Meeting. The date and place of each 
montbT h P fn" b ?/ 1Xed b ! 7 th6 °° UnCi1 ’ Md announced ^ circular at least three 
months before the meeting. The programme of each meeting shall be deter- 
Council, and announced beforehand, in its general features. The 
details of the daily sessions shall also be arranged by the Council. 
• 2 ' Ai members must forward to the Secretary, if possible, before the conven¬ 
ing of the Academy, full title of all papers which they propose to present during 
the meeting, with a statement of the time that each will occupy in delivery and 
a brief abstract of their contents. From the abstracts thus presented, the Council 
will determine the fitness of the paper for the programme. 
3. This section stricken out April 1, 1898. 
4 Special Meeting of the Academy may be called by the Council, and must be 
called upon the written request of twenty Resident Members. 
5. Stated Meetings of the Council, shall be held coincidently with the stated 
meetings of the Academy. Special meetings of the Council may be called by the 
.President at such times as he may deem necessary. 
6. Quorum. At meetings of the Academy a majority of those registered in 
