Congressional
representation of the respective States and Territories,
except as above provided.

SEC. 7. No distinction on account of sex shall ever be made
in the membership or in the selection of officers of this
Society; but the general principle shall be that one half of
the officers shall, as nearly as convenient, be men, and one
half women.

SEC. 8. No money shall be paid by the Treasurer except under
such restrictions as the Executive Committee may provide.

SEC. 9. Five members of the Executive Committee, when
convened by the Chairman, after fifteen days written notice
previously mailed to each of its members, shall constitute a
quorum. But no action thus taken shall be final, until such
proceedings shall have been ratified in writing by at least
fifteen members of the Committee.

SEC. 10. The Chairman shall convene a meeting whenever
requested to do so by five members of the Executive
Committee.

ARTICLE IV.

This Association shall have a branch office in every State
in connection with the office of the auxiliary State Society
therein, and shall have a central office at such place as
the Executive Committee may determine.

ARTICLE V.

This Constitution may be amended at any annual meeting, by a
vote of three-fifths of the delegates present therein.

ARTICLE VI.

Any person may become a member of the American Woman
Suffrage Association by signing the Constitution and paying
the sum of $1 annually, or life members by paying the sum of
$10, which membership shall entitle the individual to attend
the business meetings of delegates and participate in their
deliberations.

ARTICLE VII.

Honorary members may be appointed by the annual meeting or
by the Executive Committee, in consideration of services
rendered.

The officers of the Association were then appointed:

_President_--Henry Ward Beecher.

_Vice Presidents at Large_--T. W. Higginson, Mary A.
Livermore, William Lloyd Garrison, Mrs. W. T. Hazard, George
W. Curtis, Celia M. Burleigh, George W. Julian, Margaret V.
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