(11) The general order of business at meetings of the Society shall be as follows:
(a) Minutes of previous meeting. (b) Report of Executive Council on candidates for membership. (c) Balloting on candidates for membership. (d) Reports of officers and committees. (e) Unfinished business. (f) New business. (g) Adjournment.
(12) When not otherwise provided, Cushing’s Manual shall be the authority on points of procedure at meetings of the Society.
(13) No part of these by-laws shall be amended, altered or repealed unless proposition is submitted in writing covering the proposed amendment at least thirty days before the meeting when it is to be acted upon, when, if two thirds of the members present and voting express themselves in favor of the change, the same shall be made.
MR. THOMAS HAMILTON MURRAY.
One of the Founders of the Society, and its First Secretary-General, serving from 1897 until his decease June 5th, 1908.
It has been deemed necessary that a revision of the above be made in order to make them conform to the present needs of the Society, and a committee consisting of Michael J. Jordan, Esq., Hon. Patrick J. McCarthy, Joseph T. Ryan, Esq., John E. O’Brien, Esq., and the Secretary-General, appointed by the President-General at Washington, D. C., January 17, 1909, has the revision in charge.
GENERAL INFORMATION REGARDING THE AMERICAN IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
The Society was organized on January 20, 1897, in Boston, Mass., and now has members in nearly all the states, the District of Columbia, one territory and four foreign countries.
The object of the organization is to make better known the Irish chapter in American history.