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CONSTITUTION  AND  BY-LAWS  OF  THE  UNITED 
STATES  PHARMACOPCELAL  CONVENTION  1900. 
-  CONSTITUTION. 
Article  I. — Name  and  Objects. 
Section  i.  The  corporate  name  of  this  organization  shall  be 
"  The  United  States  Pharmacopoeial  Convention." 
Section  2.  Its  objects  shall  be  those  declared  in  its  Certificate 
of  Incorporation,  and  shall  include  the  revision  and  publication  of 
the  Pharmacopoeia  of  the  United  States  of  America. 
Article  II. — Membership. 
Section  i.  The  members  of  the  United  States  Pharmacopoeial 
Convention,  in  addition  to  the  Incorporators  and  their  associates, 
shall  be  delegates  elected  by  the  following  organizations  in  the 
manner  they  shall  respectively  provide:  Incorporated  Medical 
Colleges,  and  Medical  Schools  connected  with  Incorporated 
Colleges  and  Universities ;  Incorporated  Colleges  of  Phar- 
macy, and  Pharmaceutical  Schools  connected  with  Incor- 
porated Universities;  Incorporated  State  Medical  Associations; 
Incorporated  State  Pharmaceutical  Associations ;  the  American 
Medical  Association,  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  and 
the  American  Chemical  Society ;  provided  that  no  such  organization 
shall  be  entitled  to  representation  unless  it  shall  have  been  incor- 
porated within  and  shall  have  been  in  continuous  operation  in  the 
United  States  for  at  least  five  years  before  the  time  fixed  for  the 
decennial  meeting  of  this  corporation. 
Section  2.  Delegates  appointed  by  the  Surgeon-General  of 
the  United  States  Army,  the  Surgeon-General  of  the  United  States 
Navy,  and  the  Surgeon-General  of  the  United  States  Marine  Hos- 
pital Service,  and  by  the  organizations  not  hereinbefore  named  which 
were  admitted  to  representation  in  the  Convention  of  1900,  shall 
also  be  members  of  the  corporation.  Each  body  and  each  branch 
of  the  United  States  Government  above  mentioned  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  mem- 
bers until  their  credentials  shall  have  been  examined  and  acted 
