e-president, shall
subscribe all the public acts of the Society.

III. The president, and in his absence, the vice-president, shall
moreover have the power of calling a special meeting of the Society
whenever he shall judge proper, or six members require it.

IV. The secretary shall keep fair records of the proceedings of the
Society; he shall also conduct the correspondence of the Society, with
a committee of three appointed by the president; and all letters on
the business of the Society are to be addressed to him.

V. Corresponding members shall be appointed by the electing-committee.
Their duty shall be to communicate to the secretary and his assistants
any information, that may promote the purposes of this institution,
which shall be transferred by him to the acting-committee.

VI. The treasurer shall pay all orders drawn by the president, or
vice-president; which orders shall be his vouchers for his
expenditures. He shall, before he enters on his office, give a bond of
not less than 200_l._ for the faithful discharge of his duty.

VII. The duty of the councilors shall be to explain the laws and
constitutions of the States, which relate to the emancipation of
slaves; and to urge their claims to freedom, when legal, before such
persons or courts as are authorized to decide upon them.

VIII. The electing-committee shall have sole power of admitting new
members. Two-thirds of them shall be a quorum for this purpose; and
the concurrence of a majority of them by ballot, when met, shall be
necessary for the admission of a member. No member shall be admitted
who has not been proposed at a general meeting of the Society nor
shall election of a member take place in less than a month after the
time of his being proposed. Foreigners, or other persons, who do not
reside in this State, may be elected corresponding members of the
Society without being subject to an annual payment, and shall be
admitted to the meetings of the Society during their residence in the
State.

IX. The acting-committee shall transact the business of the Society in
its recess, and report the same at each quarterly meeting. They shall
have a right, with the concurrence of the president or vice-president,
to draw upon the treasurer for such sums of money as may be necessary
to carry on the business of their appointment. Four of them shall be a
quorum. After their first election, at each succeeding quarterly
meeting, there shall be an election for t