ARTICLE IX.

No alterations of the Constitution shall be made, unless the same shall have been proposed at a stated meeting of the Society, held not less than a month previous to the adoption of such alterations. All questions shall be decided, where there is a division, by a majority of votes; in those where the Society is equally divided, the presiding officer shall have the casting vote.

OFFICERS OE THE SOCIETY.
1864.

President,	JAMES J. BARCLAY.

Vice-Presidents,	WILLIAM SHIPPEN, M. D.
	JOSEPH R. CHANDLER.

Treasurer,	EDWARD H. BONSALL.

Secretaries,	JOHN J. LYTLE,
	EDWARD TOWNSEND.

Counsellors,	HENRY J. WILLIAMS,
	CHARLES GIBBONS.

Members of the Acting Committee.

Charles Ellis,

William S. Perot,

Thomas Latimer,

John M. Wetherill,

Abram C. Brown,

Benjamin H. Pitfield,

James E. Kaighn,

Alfred H. Love,

Jeremiah Willits,

William H. Burr,

George Taber,

William L. J. Kiderlen,

Mahlon H. Dickinson,

William Ingram,

James Peters,

Robert E. Evans,

Charles Palmer,

Charles P. Perot,

Abram Martin,

Wm. Armstrong, M. D.,

William Nicholson,

Charles W. Funk,

Philip P. Randolph,

Samuel Townsend,

Albert G. Roland,

Benj. H. Shoemaker,

Lewis C. Neuman,

Wm. Warner Caldwell,

Henry Perkins,

George M. Elkinton,

William R. MacAdam,

J. M. Corse, M. D.,

E. Griffin, M. D.,

William Hacker,

Isaac Barton,

J. H. Beckwith,

Thomas A. Robinson,

John H. Watt,

George Milliken,

John Klein,

Theodore Trewendt.

Visiting Committee on the Eastern Penitentiary.

Edward H. Bonsall,

John J. Lytle,

Edward Townsend,