members present, at any annual meeting, any article of this Constitution may be amended or repealed, and articles added thereto without such previous notice. BY-LAWS. RULES OF Order. ARTICLE I. In the discussion and disposition of all business coming before the State Medical Society of Wisconsin, parliamentary rules of debate shall be observed, and Robert's Manual shall be the guide. ORDER OF BUSINESS. ART. II.-The order of business at each annual meeting of the Society shall be arranged by an executive committee, composed of the President, the Secretary and the Committee on Arrangements, and shall ordinarily embrace the following: WEDNESDAY, 11:00 O'CLOCK A. M. 1. Calling of meeting to order by the President. 2. Opening of the session by prayer. 3. Report of Committee on Arrangements. 4. Addresses of welcome or other impromptu addresses. FORCE OF THE CODE OF ETHICS. ART. III-The Code of Ethics heretofore adopted by this Society from the American Medical Association shall have the full force of any article of either the Constitution or the By-Laws. DISCIPLINE OF MEMBERS. ART. IV.-SECTION 1.-Any member shall be liable to censure, suspension or expulsion for willful neglect of the rules and regulations of this Society, for any flagrant violation of our Code of Ethics or for any gross or immoral conduct. A vote of two-thirds of the members present shall be requisite to censure, to suspend or to expel. SEC. 2. Should any charges be preferred against any member which might lead to his censure, suspension or expulsion, such charges shall be preferred while the Society is in special executive session, and the Secretary shall immediately give the accused a written copy of the said charges and state by whom preferred. The matter shall then lie over until the next annual meeting, when due action shall be taken thereon. SEC. 3.-Any member of this Society who, from professional incompetency, or for any other sufficient reason not already mentioned, shall be deemed unworthy of the fellowship of the Society, may be deprived of his membership, as provided in sections one (1) and two (2) of this article. SEC. 4. Any member of this Society who shall absent himself from the meetings of the same for three consecutive years without rendering the Society a satisfactory excuse shall lose membership in the same. SEC. 5.-Any member failing for a period of three years to pay to the Society the sum of three dollars, annual dues, shall also lose membership in the Society. SEC. 6. Any member who has lost membership in the Society, under Sections 4 and 5 of article IV. of the By-Laws, may be re-instated upon the recommendation of the Censors, by receiving a vote of two-thirds of the members present at any meeting, and be entitled to membership by again signing the Constitution and paying five ($5.00) dollars to the Treasurer, which sum shall include his annual dues for one year. STANDING COMMITTEES. ART. V. The Secretary, President and Treasurer shall be ex officio, a Committee on Publication, who shall have charge of all matters intended for the press and superintend their publication, but the Society shall not be understood as indorsing any paper published unless it does so by special resolution. For preparing, arranging and expediting business for each next ensuing year and for carrying out the objects of the Society the President-elect at each annual meeting shall appoint: SECTION 1.-A Committee of Arrangements consisting of three members, who shall provide suitable accommodations for the meetings of the Society, and in general have charge of the interests of the Society while in session. SEC. 2.-A Committee on Finance, consisting of three members, who shall audit the Treasurer's report and such other accounts as may be referred to them, and recommend suitable action thereon. SEC. 3.-1A Committee on Practical Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Materia Medica, Ophthalmology and Otology, Nervous Diseases, Laryngology, Hygiene and such other Special Committees as will, in the judg ment of the President, best advance the interests of the Society. The duties of these committees shall be to report any recent advancement or discuss some subject pertaining to that department. SEC. 4. The President shall also annually nominate three members of the Committee on Ethics, each to serve for three years (subject to confirmation or rejection by vote of the Society), so that this committee shall consist of nine members. This committee shall consider all cases for discipline of members. All charges made shall be referred to them without discussion; all evidence shall be presented to them and they shall report their conclusions to the Society. THE SECRETARY. ART. VI.-The Secretary shall receive an annual salary of one hundred dollars, and his annual dues shall be remitted. The Assistant Secretary, if a resident of the place where the session of the Society is to be held, shall be ex officio a member of the Committee on Arrangements. 1The following resolution was adoped June, 1890, (see page 47, Transactions, 1890): "Resolved, That when the President appoints the Standing Committees he shall des ignate a Chairman and Secretary to each committee, who shall have charge of their respective departments and be expected to see that papers, discussions, exhibitions, etc., on subjects in their sections are furnished for the next succeeding annual meeting." AMENDMENTS. ART. VII.—These By-Laws may be altered, added to, or repealed by a threefourths vote at any annual meeting. Additional By-Laws adopted May 5, 1892 (see page 5. Transactions, 1892): Ist. That at the annual meeting a dinner shall be provided at the expense of the Society, under the direction of an Anniversary Chairman, and a committee appointed for that purpose. 2d. An invitation to the dinner may be given to such strangers, professional or otherwise, as the President of the Society or Anniversary Chairman shall think proper to notice in this manner. AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE IX OF CONSTITUTION. [Adopted June 20, 1895.] ART. IX. The Censors shall constitute a committee for the examination of applicants for membership, but shall entertain no application for membership unless the applicant shall present the certificate of two members of this Society as to his moral and professional character. ADDITIONAL ARTICLE TO THE CONSTITUTION. ART. XVI. That the section on legal medicine be so organized in the Wisconsin State Medical Society as to admit attorneys to the meetings of said section, and to membership in the same, on the same terms and in the same manner as members are admitted to membership in said Society. That all members of said Society be members of said section without extra fee. That all attorneys becoming members of said section shall pay to the Treasurer of said Society one and one-half dollars ($1.50), and the same amount annual dues, which shall entitle them to all benefits of said section, including publications of proceedings of said section. 1854 Harmon Van Dusen.. OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY FROM 1847 TO THE PRESENT TIME. No quorum. Adjourned to meet in Madison, 1854. ....John Mitchell. At this meeting amendment to Constitution to admit unlimited members Secretary. C. B. Chapman (rec). Jos. Gray. |