By-Laws. 
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SECTION III. 
OF MEETINGS. 
The Executive Committee shall meet annually, on the day preceding the day on 
which the annual meeting of the society is held, on the first Tuesday of February, 
and again on the first day of the annual fair. 
They shall also meet at the call of the Secretary, the President, and a Vice-Presi¬ 
dent of the society concurring—and may adjourn to any stated time. 
SECTION IV. 
OF A QUORUM. 
At any meeting of the Executive Committee, four members thereof shall const- 
tute a quorum for the transaction of business. 
SECTION V. 
OF PERMANENT COMMITTEES. 
There shall be two permanent committees of the Executive Committee, which 
shall be respectively styled the Standing Committee and the Finance Committee. 
The Standing Committee shall consist of the President, the Secretary, and the 
Treasurer, who shall have power in the recess of the Executive Committee to draw 
orders on the treasury for all necessary, current incidental expenses. But the Exec¬ 
utive Committee shall have authority, and are hereby required to revise the proceed¬ 
ings or transactions of said Standing Committee, and endorse or disprove of the 
same. 
The Finance Committee shall consist of the President and Treasurer, and it shall 
be their duty to suggest means for increasing the revenues of the Society. 
They shall also have authority to invest any portion of the funds of the Society 
that may from time to time be set apart, by the Executive Committee for investment, 
disposing of such funds upon such terms and conditions as may be prescribed by the 
said Executive Committee. 
Each of the above-named sub-committees shall be responsible for the faithful dis¬ 
charge of their duties to the Executive Committee, to whom an appeal may at any 
time be taken from their acts or decisions. 
The auditing, adjusting, allowing, or rejecting of all bills, claims, or demands, of 
whatsoever nature, against the Society, and the issuing of orders upon the Treasurer 
for the payment of the same—except for the current, incidental expenses of the 
Society, as by tin’s section already provided for—shall devolve upon the Executive 
Committee; and it shall be the duty of said Committee to annually examine the 
books, papers and vouchers of the Treasurer and Secretary, and compare the same, 
and adjust the accounts between those officers and the Society, and to report thereon 
at the Annual Meeting in December. 
