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BY-LAWS.

CLAUSE 1. The annual meeting of the Society shall be held on the third Tuesday in August, at such village in the county as the President shall designate, and at such hour as the Secretary in the notice of such meeting shall name.

CLAUSE 2. The Secretary shall give notice of such meeting by publication in all of the county papers for two successive weeks prior to the meeting, also enclose by mail a special notice to the post-office address of each officer of the Society at least ten days prior to such meeting.

CLAUSE 3. Any meeting may be adjourned to such time as a majority of the members shall determine.

CLAUSE 4. The President shall preside at the meeting of the Society, regulate its proceedings, preserve order and decorum, and have a casting vote. He shall also be Chairman of the Board of Councilors.

CLAUSE 5. The Vice-President shall discharge all the duties of the President in his absence.

CLAUSE 6. The Secretary shall have the custody of the Constitution, By-Laws, Records, property and effects of the Society. He shall give due notice of all its meetings, and keep in a book provided for that purpose, a record of all its business. He shall also by virtue of his office be Secretary of the Board of Councilors or Managers, and keep a record of its proceedings. He shall, also, under the direction of the Society, prepare all communications to be addressed to others in the name of the Society, and keep true copies thereof.

CLAUSE 7. The Secretary shall also under the Board of Managers have the custody of the books, minerals, manuscripts, papers, documents, coins, maps and relics and shall provide suitable cases for their preservation, and for convenient reference and inspection. He shall keep a record of all donations, of whatever name or kind, and report the same to the Society at the annual meeting.

CLAUSE 8. As Treasurer, the Secretary shall keep all securities and sums of money due and payable or belonging to the Society. He shall keep the funds of the Society on deposit to his credit as such Treasurer, in some banking institution of good repute; shall pay all sums which the

Board of Council shall direct; shall keep a true account of all his receipts and disbursements, and render a full and detailed statement thereof at the annual meeting of the Society.

CLAUSE 9. It shall be the duty of the Board of Council to control and manage the affairs and funds of the Society. They shall make annually a report to the Society of all its doings and transactions for the preceding year.

CLAUSE 10. Any member of this Society may be expelled by a twothirds' vote of the members present at a special or regular meeting of the Society, but no such action shall be taken without a notice two weeks previous to expel shall have been given by the Secretary of the Society in writing and sent through the mails to the post-office address of the defaulting member.

CLAUSE 11. At the annual meeting there shall be an address delivered before the Society by the President or by some other person appointed by the Board of Council.

CLAUSE 12. At the meeting of the Society and as far as applicable at the meeting of the Board of Council, the following shall be the order of business:

1. Reading of the minutes of last meeting.

2. Reports and Communications from Officers of the Society.

3. Reports from the Committees.

4. Election of members.

5. Miscellaneous Business.

6. Reading of Papers and Delivery of Address.

CLAUSE 13. After the annual election of officers, the President shall appoint from the Board of Council the following standing commsttees to consist of three members each:

1. On Finances.

2. On Publication.

3. On Membership.

CLAUSE 14. The Finance Committee shall have general charge of the books, receipts, accounts, finances and expenditures of the Society. It shall examine and report upon all accounts and claims against the Society, and, upon proposition, for the expenditure of its funds, as well as measures to increase the revenues of the Society, and promote economy in its expenditures.

CLAUSE 15. The Committee on Publication shall have charge and su pervision of all publications made by the direction of the Society, and shall carefully examine all manuscripts and papers and other things directed to be published, in order to discover all errors and defects, and correct the same, also when necessary to make abstracts or abridgements papers.

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CLAUSE 16. It shall be the duty of the Committee on Membership to consider and report upon all questions relating to membership, which may be referred for that purpose, and as far as practicable to induce all proper persons to become members of the Society.

CLAUSE 17. In the course of the future, should it become advisable, the President may, in his discretion, after the annual election of officers,

appoint the following committees, each to consist of three members of the Society:

1. On the increase of Books and Library.

2. On the increase of Members.

3. On Donations and Subscriptions.

4. On Statistics.

5. On Portraits, Pictures, and Photographs of Pioneer and early Settlers.

6. On Local History.

7. On Indian Reminisences, Pictures, Memorials and History.

CLAUSE 18. The duties of these respective committees may be defined hereafter, in case the future requirements and interests of the Society make their appointment necessary.

CLAUSE 19. If any members of the Board of Council fail at any time to pay their dues to the Society or fail to qualify, and thus become ineligible to the office to which they have been elected, a majority of the Councilmen elected and qualified, shall have the power to declare such office vacant and shall proceed to fill the same from the resident members of the Society.

CLAUSE 20. A majority of the Board of Council present at any meeting of its members, special or otherwise, of which due notice shall have been given to its respective members by the Secretary of the Society (who by virtue of his office becomes Secretary of the Board of Council), shall constitute a quorum to transact business.

CLAUSE 21. All reports of committees shall be in writing, either in form of resolutions or otherwise as they may deem expedient.

CLAUSE 22. Any of these By-Laws may be suspended in case of temporary exigency, by a two-thirds' vote of all the members present at any annual meeting. They may also be amended and changed, and new matter added by a majority of all the members present at any annual meeting, provided notice of the proposed amendments be given in the call of the annual meeting at least two weeks previous to final action thereon.

CLAUSE 23. It is recommended that the members of the Society in the different towns and villages of the county form local clubs, and meet monthly, especially during the winter, in their respective localities, at private residences, by invitation of its members. The reading of an appropriate paper followed by such remarks and discussion as the subject might suggest, would disseminate much valuable information, and add increasing interest to the occasion, and make such meetings in their informal and social character a valuable acquisition to the Society, and create an interest and marked influence in promoting historical research among the members.

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