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upon  as  provided  for  by  the  By-Laws.  Delegates  admitted  as 
members  at  any  decennial  meeting  shall  continue  to  be  members 
of  the  United  States  Pharmacopceial  Convention  until  their  suc- 
cessors shall  have  been  appointed  and  admitted  as  delegates  to  the 
ensuing  Convention  and  no  longer. 
Article  III. — Officers. 
The  officers  of  the  United  States  Pharmacopceial  Convention 
shall  be  a  President,  five  Vice-Presidents,  a  Secretary  and  an 
Assistant  Secretary,  and  a  Treasurer,  to  be  elected  by  ballot  at 
each  decennial  meeting.  The  Board  of  Trustees  (or  Directors) 
named  in  the  certificate  of  incorporation,  or  their  successors,  shall 
elect  these  officers  to  serve  until  the  first  regular  decennial  meeting 
and  until  their  successors  shall  have  been  elected  and  qualified. 
Article  IV. — Committees  and  Trustees. 
The  members  of  the  United  States  Pharmacopceial  Convention 
shall  also  at  each  decennial  meeting  elect  a  Nominating  Committee, 
a  Committee  of  Revision,  and  a  Board  of  Trustees.  Until  the  first 
decennial  meeting,  the  Board  of  Trustees  shall  be  the  persons  named 
as  such  Board  in  the  certificate  of  incorporation,  who  shall  serve 
as  such  Trustees  until  their  successors  shall  have  been  elected  and 
qualified.  The  By-Laws  shall  provide  for  the  method  of  election 
and  shall  prescribe  the  duties  of  said  Committees  and  Board  of 
Trustees.  The  Board  of  Trustees  named  in  said  certificate,  or 
their  successors,  shall  also  appoint  all  other  committees  that  may 
be  required  for  the  operation  of  the  corporation  until  its  first 
decennial  meeting. 
Article  V. — Meetings. 
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.  The  first  decennial  meeting  shall  be  held  in 
the  year  1910. 
Article  VI. — Amendments. 
Every  proposition  to  alter  or  amend  this  Constitution  shall  be 
submitted  in  writing  to  the  Board  of  Trustees,  and  having  received 
