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Sect.  5.  At  stated  or  adjourned  meetings  business  shall  be  proceeded  with 
in  the  following  order,  viz : 
1.  The  Secretary  shall  call  the  roll  and  note  absentees. 
2.  Minutes  of  the  preceding  meeting  read,  corrected,  if  necessary,  and 
adopted. 
3.  The  minutes  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  for  the  preceding  meeting  or 
meetings,  and  such  reports  and  business  as  they  may  present. 
4.  Incidental  business. 
Sect.  6.  At  a  special  meeting,  after  the  minutes  of  the  preceding  meeting 
have  been  read,  the  meeting  shall  immediately  proceed  to  the  consideration 
of  the  business  for  which  it  was  specially  convened,  and  no  other  business 
shall  be  brought  before  the  College  at  such  special  meeting. 
Sect.  7.  The  Chair  shall  decide  upon  questions  of  order:  from  which 
decisions,  however,  an  appeal  to  the  meeting  may  be  had,  if  required  by 
by  two  members,  and  the  meeting  shall  thereupon  decide  without  debate. 
Sect.  8.  No  motion  shall  be  received  unless  seconded,  nor  until  the  mover, 
if  required  by  the  President,  Chairman,  or  a  member,  shall  have  com- 
mitted it  to  writing. 
Sect.  9.  Every  member,  when  speaking,  Bhall  address  the  Chair;  and 
when  a  question  is  before  the  meeting,  no  motion  shall  be  received,  unless 
to  amend,  divide,  commit,  or  postpone,  or  to  adjourn;  and  a  motion  to 
adjourn  shall  always  be  decided  without  debate. 
Sect.  10.  On  the  call  of  any  member  the  yeas  and  nays  shall  be  ordered; 
when  the  question  is  decided  by  yeas  and  nays,  each  member  present  shall 
vote,  and  the  names  and  manner  of  voting  shall  be  entered  upon  the 
minutes. 
LAW  VIII.  —  Of  the  Pharmaceutical  Meetings. 
Sect,  1.  The  Pharmaceutical  meetings  of  the  College,  which  shall  be 
exclusively  for  scientific  purposes,  ehall  be  held  on  the  first  Monday  in 
every  month,  from  October  to  March,  both  inclusive,  or  at  such  time  as  said 
meetings  may  determine. 
Sect.  2.  Five  members  shall  constitute  a  quorum. 
Sect.  3.  As  soon  after  the  hour  appointed  as  five  members  shall  appear, 
the  President,  or,  in  his  absence,  one  of  the  Vice  Presidents,  or,  in  his 
absence,  a  Chairman  pro  tempore,  shall  take  the  chair  and  call  the  mem- 
bers to  order. 
Sect.  4.  A  Register  shall  be  elected  annually,  at  the  meeting  in  October, 
to  issue  the  notices,  prepare  business,  and  record  the  proceedings  of  the 
Pharmaceutical  meetings,  and  to  make  selections  therefrom  for  publication 
in  the  Journal. 
Sect.  5.  The  order  of  proceedings  at  these  meetings  shall  be  as  follows: 
1.  Minutes  of  the  preceding  meeting  read,  corrected,  if  necessary,  and 
adopted. 
