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Article  VI.  By-Laws. 
By-Laws  for  the  regulation  of  the  General  Body  as  well  as  for  the  govern- 
ment of  the  Council  and  the  Board  of  Trustees,  shall  be  enacted  by  the  General 
Body,  in  regular  session,  and  no  change  in  such  By-Laws  may  be  made  unless 
notice  of  the  proposed  change  has  been  given  at  the  session  immediatel}'  pre- 
ceding the  one  at  which  the  motion  to  amend  is  made.  No  such  motion  shall 
be  considered  carried  unless  two-thirds  of  all  the  votes  cast  shall  have  been 
favorable  to  it. 
Article  VII.  Amendments. 
Amendments  and  alterations  to  the  Preamble  or  Constitution  may  be  made 
at  any  annual  meeting,  provided  notice  of  the  proposed  change  has  been  given, 
at  the  annual  meeting  immediately  preceding  the  one  at  which  the  motion  to 
amend  is  made.  Such  motion  must  receive  three-fourths  of  all  the  votes  cast 
before  it  may  be  considered  as  having  carried. 
by-laws. 
Chapter  I.    General  Body. 
Section  i.  Composition  : — This  body  shall  be  composed  of  such  regular  and 
life  members  as  shall  attend  the  annual  meetings. 
Sec.  2.  Officers  : — These  shall  be  a  President,  First  Vice-President  and  Second 
Vice-President,  who  shall  be  elected  annually  by  this  body,  and  the  General 
Secretary,  who  shall  be  elected  by  the  Council. 
SEC-  3.  Duties  of  Officers  : — The  President  shall  preside  at  all  sessions,  shall 
deliver  an  address  at  the  first  session  of  the  annual  meeting  following  his  elec- 
tion, shall  appoint  all  the  committees  of  this  body,  not  otherwise  provided  for, 
and  perform  such  other  offices  as  may  be  assigned  him.  In  the  absence  of  the 
president,  his  duties  shall  be  performed  by  one  of  the  vice-presidents.  The 
General  Secretary  shall  perform  the  usual  offices  of  a  secretary  ;  shall  make  a 
record  of  the  proceedings  and  report  same,  or  as  much  thereof  as  may  be  re- 
quired, to  the  Council. 
Sec.  4.  Councilors  : — At  each  annual  meeting  three  members  shall  be  elected 
to  serve  three  years  as  Councilors  and  to  take  the  places  of  the  members  of 
the  Council  who  have  served  three  years.  -  Members  of  the  Council  from  this 
body  shall  not  be  eligible  to  re-election  until  one  year  has  elapsed  fol]  owing  a 
full  service  of  three  years. 
SEC.  5.  Election  : — The  officers  and  councilors  shall  be  elected  by  secret  bal- 
lot and  installed  during  the  last  session  of  this  body,  at  each  annual  meeting, 
after  having  been  nominated  at  the  first  session  in  the  following  manner  :  Near 
the  close  of  the  first  session  a  secret  ballot,  a  blank  for  which  the  secretary 
shall  furnish,  may  be  cast  by  each  member  present  for  such  nominees  as  the 
member  may  select.  The  two  members  receiving  the  highest  and  next  to 
highest  number  of  votes  for  the  several  offices  and  the  six  members  who  shall 
receive,  in  order,  the  greatest  number  of  votes  for  councilors  shall  be  declared 
the  nominees  and  shall  be  posted  as  such.  For  the  election,  a  ticket,  upon 
which  all  the  names  of  the  nominees  shall  be  printed,  shall  be  furnished  each 
competent  elector,  by  the  Secretary,  at  the  time  the  ballots  are  to  be  cast. 
