Article VII.—Corresponding members may be elected, not resident in the city of Philadelphia, nor within ten miles thereof, who shall not be required to make pecuniary contributions to the funds of the Society, nor sign the constitution.
Article VIII.—The Society shall meet on the second Second-day, called Monday, in the months called January, April, July, and October, at such place as shall be agreed to by a majority of the Society.
Article IX.—No law or regulation shall contradict any part of the Constitution of the Society, nor shall any law or alteration of the Constitution be made without it be proposed at a previous meeting. 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 a casting vote.
OFFICERS FOR 1849.
President—James J. Barclay. Vice-Presidents—Townsend Sharpless, Charles B. Trego. Treasurer—Edward Yarnall.
Secretaries and Committee of Correspondence—
William Parker Foulke, Charles D. Cleveland.
Counsellors—Job R. Tyson, William A. Porter.
Acting Committee.
James J. Barclay, Townsend Sharpless, Charles B. Trego, Edward Yarnall, William Parker Foulke, Charles Dexter Cleveland, Job R. Tyson, William A. Porter, Frederick A. Packard, Jeremiah Hacker, William Shippen, John M. Whitall, Marmaduke Cooper Cope, Rene Guillou, Charles Ellis, Edward Townsend.
👉 Quarterly Meeting of the Society on the ninth day of April, inst.