Charter, By-laws, and List of Members of the American Geographical and Statistical Society

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Страница 9 - ... affairs, shall have power to form a code of by-laws, not inconsistent with the laws of this State, or of the United States, which code, when formed and adopted at a regular meeting, shall, until modified or rescinded, be equally binding as this act upon the said Society, its officers, and its members.
Страница 9 - I have compared the preceding with the original law on file in this office, and do hereby certify that the same is a correct transcript therefrom, and of the whole of said original law.
Страница 8 - Society," for the purpose of collecting and diffusing geographical and statistical information. § 2. For the purposes aforesaid, the said Society shall possess the general powers and privileges, and be subject to the general liabilities, contained in the third title of the eighteenth chapter of the first part of the Revised Statutes, so far as the same may be applicable, and may not have been modified or repealed; but the real and personal estate...
Страница 15 - VicePresidents, or, in their absence, a Chairman pro tempore, shall preside at all meetings of the Society, and shall have a casting vote. He shall preserve order, and shall decide all questions of order, subject to an appeal to the Society.
Страница 16 - Society, and attend the same. He shall keep fair and accurate records of all the proceedings and orders of the Society, and...
Страница 13 - Tuesday in October of each year, in such city as the majority of the members voting shall decide ; selection of place of meeting to be made after the officers shall have been elected. Provided, however, that the date may be changed for cause, with the approval of two-thirds of the Executive Committee, all...
Страница 10 - Given under my hand and the seal of office of the Secretary of State, at the city of Albany, this third day of May, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five.
Страница 19 - ... special committees as it may deem proper, and define their duties. It shall appoint the librarians, clerks and other servants of the Society, and fix the powers, duties, privileges and compensation of each. But no appointment shall be made which shall not be revokable at the pleasure of the Council. 3. It shall have power to fill for the unexpired term any vacancy that may occur in its own body or in any of the offices of the Society, and it may declare a vacancy to exist in any office whenever...
Страница 13 - OFFICERS. 1. The officers of the Society shall be a president, three vicepresidents, a foreign corresponding secretary, a domestic corresponding secretary, a recording secretary, a treasurer, and fifteen councillors ; and these, together, shall form the Council of the Society. 2.
Страница 7 - Bloodgood, M. Dudley Bean, Hiram Barney, Alexander J. Cotheal, Luther B. Wyman, John Jay, J. Calvin Smith, Henry V. Poor, Cambridge Livingston, Edmund Blunt, Alexander W. Bradford, and their associates, who are now or may become hereafter associated for the purposes of this act, are hereby constituted a body corporate by the name of "The American Geographical and Statistical Society," for the purpose of collecting and diffusing geographical and statistical information.

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