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(    February,  1920. 
members  of  the  corporation.  Each  body  and  each  branch  of  the 
United  States  Government  above  mentiond  shall  be  entitled  to 
send  three  delegates  to  the  meetings  of  this  corporation.  But  no 
such  delegates  as  are  provided  for  in  this  article  shall  be  members 
until  their  credentials  shall  have  been  examined  and  acted  upon  as 
proAdded  for  by  the  By-Laws.  Delegates  admitted  as  members 
at  any  decennial  meeting  shall  continue  to  be  members  of  the  United 
States  Pharmacopoeial  Convention  until  their  successors  shall  have 
been  appointed  and  admitted  as  delegates  to  the  ensuing  Convention 
and  no  longer. 
ArTicIvB  V. 
MBKTINGS. 
The  regular  meetings  of  this  corporation  shall  be  held  once  in 
ten  years.  The  time  of  holding  the  decennial  meeting  shall  be  upon 
the  second  Tuesday  in  May,  in  the  first  year  in  each  decade  ending 
in  zero,  and  the  place  of  meeting  shall  be  in  the  City  of  Washington, 
D.  C.  Unless  in  case  of  emergency,  the  Board  of  Trustees  and  officers 
of  the  Convention,  by  joint  vote  shall  select  some  other  place  of  meeting 
and  some  date  within  the  same  year  other  than  the  second  Tuesday  in 
May.    The  first  decennial  meeting  shall  be  held  in  the  year  1910. 
ArticIvK  VI. 
ame:ndmknts. 
Every  proposition  to  alter  or  amend  this  Constitution  shall  be 
submitted  in  writing  to  the  Board  of  Trustees,  and  having  received 
the  votes  of  at  least  five  members  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  shall  be 
[published  in  the  medical  and  pharmaceutical  journals]  submitted 
to  the  medical  and  pharmaceutical  press,  at  least  three  months  before 
the  decennial  meeting  of  the  United  States  Pharmacopoeial  Conven- 
tion, when,  upon  receiving  the  votes  of  at  least  three-fourths  of  the 
members  present  and  voting,  it  shall  become  a  part  of  this  Constitu- 
tion. 
BY-LAWS. 
Chapter  III. 
OF  THE  TREASURER. 
Article  II.  He  shall  pay  no  moneys  except  on  the  written  order 
of  the  Board  of  Trustees.    All  bills  must  be  accompanied  by  proper 
