igned it.

The recess having expired, the chairman calls the meeting to order and
says, "The next business in order is the adoption of By-Laws." Some one
moves the adoption of the By-Laws reported by the committee, and they
are treated just like the Constitution. The chairman then asks, "What
is the further pleasure of the meeting?" or states that the next
business in order is the election of the permanent officers of the
society. In either case some one moves the appointment of a committee
to nominate the permanent officers of the society, which motion is
treated as already described in Sec. 47. As

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each officer is elected he replaces the temporary one, and when they are
all elected the organization is completed.

If the society is one that expects to own real estate, it should be
incorporated according to the laws of the state in which it is situated,
and for this purpose, some one on the committee on the Constitution
should consult a lawyer before this second meeting, so that the laws may
be conformed to. In this case the trustees are usually instructed to
take the proper measures to have the society incorporated.

49. Constitutions, By-Laws, Rules of Order and Standing Rules. In
forming a Constitution and By-Laws, it is always best to procure copies
of those adopted by several similar societies, and for the committee,
after comparing them, to select one as the basis of their own, amending
each article just as their own report is amended by the Society. When
they have completed amending the Constitution, it is adopted by the
committee. The By-Laws are treated in the same way, and then, having
finished the work assigned them, some one moves, "That the committee
rise, and that the chairman (or some other

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member) report the Constitution and By-Laws to the assembly." If this
is adopted, the Constitution and By-Laws are written out, and a brief
report made of this form: "Your committee, appointed to draft a
Constitution and By-Laws, would respectfully submit the following, with
the recommendation that they be adopted as the Constitution and By-Laws
of this society;" which is signed by all the members of the committee
that concur in it. Sometimes the report is only signed by the chairman
of the committee.

In the organization just given, it is assumed that b