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 CONSTITUTE 
 
 BY-LAWS AND 
 
 OF 
 
 ST. MALACHI'S 
 
 otal ^btihtnq mulief ^ocidg 
 
 ORaANIZED DECEMBER 20th, 1868. 
 
 Revised December llth, 1S77, 
 
 ST. JOHN, N. B. : 
 
 PailNTTED AT THB HERALD OFPICB, GEIUHiAIN STREET. 
 
 1877. 
 
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 AFPROVISD, 
 
 f J. SWEENY, Bishop of St. John. 
 
 Bptscopal Palace, I 
 
 December 11th, 1877. \ 
 
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COlSrSTITTJTIOlSr. 
 
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 ARTICLE I. —Name. 
 This Organization shall be known as the Saint 
 Malachi'vS Total Abstinence Relief Society. 
 
 ARTICLE IL— Object. 
 Its object shall be the general adoption and 
 encouragement of the principles and practice of 
 Total Abstinence. 
 
 ARTICLE III. —Membership. . 
 
 Sec. 1. No pei^iB belonging to any other 
 Temperance organization can become a member 
 of this Society. - 
 
 Sec. 2. Any person selling intoxicating liquors 
 on his own account, shall not be eligible as a 
 member of this Society. 
 
 Sec. 3. Any person who is not of the Catholic 
 religion, of good moral standing, free from dis- 
 ease, and willing to abide by the Constitution 
 
 Vt'ii 
 
and By-Laws, cannot become a irieniber of this 
 Society. 
 
 Sec. 4. The Board of Officers reserve to 
 themselves the right of decision on the foregoing 
 l^oints. 
 
 ARTICLE IV.— Offic'eks. 
 The officers of this Society shall be a Spiritual 
 Director, President, Senior and Junior Vice- 
 Presidents, Recording Secretary, Assistant Re- 
 cording Secretary, Financial Secretary, Assistant 
 Financial Secretary, Treasurer, Sergeant-at- 
 Arms, and a Committee of two members for each 
 Ward of the City (east side,) and two for the 
 Special Ward. 
 
 ARTICLE V. — Election op Officers. 
 Sec. 1. The Spiritual Director shall be a 
 clergyman appointed by the Bishop of this Dio- 
 cese. The other officers shall be elected by the 
 members at the Annual Meetings. AU elections 
 shall be by ballot. 
 
 Sec. 2. Should any office become vacant be- 
 fore the expiration of the term, a member shall 
 be elected thereto, at the next regular meetino- 
 
 
Sec. 3. Ko member sliall be eligible for ollice 
 unless he have been at least six months in the 
 Society, and have paid all his dues up to period 
 of election. 
 
 ARTICLE VI.— Duties of Officers. 
 
 Sec. 1. The Spiritual Director shall adminis- 
 ter the Total Abstinence Pledge to each member 
 on his initiation ; and shall be consulted on all 
 matters of importance. 
 
 Sec. 2. The President shall preside at the 
 meetings ; shall preserve order thereat ; shall de- 
 cide all points of order (subject to appeal to the 
 Society), and shaU maintain the observance of 
 the rules. 
 
 Sec. 3. When the President is absent, the 
 next senior officer shall occupy the chair and 
 perform his duties. 
 
 Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of the Recording 
 Secretary to keep a correct record of all business 
 of the Society, and keep a correct roll of all 
 members of the Society, in a book to be kept for 
 that purpose, with the dates of their admission, 
 resignation, or otherwise ; call roll of officers and 
 committees ; read Minutes of preceding meeting, 
 
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 and submit, at each annual meeting, a written 
 statement recapitulating the business done by 
 the Society during the year then ending, and 
 showing its relative standing ; and give such other 
 infoi-mation as may be required by the Society; 
 in his absence the Assistant Recording Secretary 
 shall perform his duties. 
 
 Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the Financial 
 Secretary to keep the account of each member of 
 the Society, to receive all initiation fees, dues and 
 fines, and pay the same over to the Treasurer at 
 each meeting, he taking ;i receipt for the same, 
 in a book to be kept for that purpose, and to re- 
 port quarterly at the semi-monthly meetings <jf 
 March, June, September and December, of all 
 moneys received by him for such periods, and of 
 the indebtedness of each member of the Society ; 
 in his absence, the Assistant Financial Secretary 
 shall perform his duties. 
 
 Sec. 6. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer 
 to receive all moneys fvom the Financial Secre- 
 tary, and pay all bills ordered by the Society 
 and none others, and shall take a receipt for the 
 same; he shall report the amounts by him re- 
 ceived and disbursed at the semi-monthly meet- 
 
ings of Maich, June, St-ptt^.ibcv .'uul Deooiuhei' ; 
 lie sliall also give up all money, papers, ifec, in 
 his hands when reciuested by the Society, and 
 also give a receipt to the Financial Secretary at 
 each meeting of the Society for all money by 
 him received. 
 
 Sec. 7. The duty of the Sergeant at- Arms 
 sliall be to see that none are present Init 
 members, or persons intending to become 
 , members, on any evening of meetings, except 
 by leave of the President, or in his absence 
 the next senior officer, and carry out the 
 instructions of the President, or in his ab- 
 sence the next senior officer, in preservincr 
 order. ^ 
 
 Sec. 8. The Ward Committees shall, upon 
 being notified, visit forthwith any sick member 
 residing in their district, and if, in their jutlg- 
 ment, he be entitled to relief, give an order 
 on the Treasurer for the same, and report the 
 case at the next regular meeting, after which the 
 sanction of the Society shall be required for 
 Its continuance. The sick shall be visited by 
 their respective Committees at least once a 
 week. 
 
ARTICLE VII. -Quorum. 
 Fifteen members shall constitute a quorum for 
 the transaction of business concerning the So- 
 ciety. , , 
 
 ARTICLE VIII. — Processions. 
 When a procession is to be ordered the Presi- 
 dent, or in his absence his representative, shall 
 appoint to the charge any member, who in turn 
 m^y choose his assistants from the members of 
 the Society. 
 
 ARTICLE IX. -The Pledge. 
 
 Sec. 1. Every member, on his initiation, 
 shall take the following pledge before the Spiri- 
 tual Director, or any other clergyman, (or pro- 
 duce a certificate showing that he has already 
 done so) in the sense of the annexed conditions : 
 
 ** I promise, with the Divine assistance and in 
 honor of the sacred hirst of our Saviour on the 
 cross, to abstain from the use of all intoxicating 
 drinks; and to discountenance the cause and 
 pracfce of intemperance." 
 
 Sec. 2. By taking the Pledge a membei- shall , 
 therefore be held himself not only to abstain, but 
 
 
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 in no way to co-operate in the practice ^f intern- 
 perance, or encourage it in others. 
 - Sec. 3. The duration of the Pledge shaU be 
 as long as the Society lasts. 
 
 Sec, 4, Intoxicating liquors used as medicine, 
 and prescribed as such by a conscientious physi- 
 cian, are not included in this Pledge. 
 
 ARTICLE X. — Amendment^, &c. 
 Alterations, amendments, or additions to this 
 Constitution, may be made by a two-thirds vote 
 of the members present at any meeting of the 
 Society. 
 
S"^-X,.A."WS. 
 
 AKTICLE I. -Meetings 
 
 ' "■'* Shall be held on the li.«t «„^.g 
 December each year ^''^ °^ 
 
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 p. m. ' "■ ^'''^■P^* ««^^n o'clock, 
 
 vote of me„.;i\L;; ""'"^ '^ -^ -"^^--^^^ 
 ARTICLE II.-_F,,, ,^„ p^^^^ • 
 
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 Soc. 2. Every iueiii)>oi- sluUI pav iiil,, fT 
 fund, the .„.. of Twenty cents .nolth,; 
 ftec. o. The dues of sick members (unless 
 
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 ARTICLE III. -Bekkhts. 
 
 &P utual Dn.ectoV every Saturday for the ben fil 
 of the Imng and dead ,no„,bers of the Socie;^ 
 »ec. ^. A Low Mms will bo offered for everv 
 
 oum or ivvo JJollars per vveeir nr^f 
 exceeding eight weeks in any twelve n.^ntt. 
 
 the Soit ^ T '^""'"^ "^ ""y ''''*"^1 member 
 the Society shall expend, as relief, in money or 
 
 Iwenty DoUars, to defray funeral expenses 
 
 «.e Recording Secretary shall, upon being noti- 
 fied, give notice through the public press of the 
 W and place of the funeral ; and L men be 
 will be expected to attend the same. 
 
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 See. 0. N., person sliall be entitled to benefits 
 unless he have liAon « ^„ i "(-utms 
 
 least «V ... ^"'^'' member for at 
 
 least SIX successive months, and have paid hi, 
 dues m full for that period. ^ * 
 
 Sec. 7. Any member whose dues are three 
 
 Tof :r r™'r •"* ^^'^^ -^ ^^ ^^t blT 
 
 hts of .actual members, unless such member hp 
 -ok, when he shall be dealt with as akL! 
 provided,) or absent from the city ^ 
 
 wht'evt t?1'"i" "'^'' '^*'' ''« discontinued 
 ^^enever the funds are insufficient to meet such 
 
 ARTICLE IV. -Fines 
 
 Sec. 1. All Officers and Committees absent 
 
 from regularly called meetings shall be finrd 
 
 Twenty-five cents, unless they show a eoodl^ 
 
 reasonable cause for such absence ^ ""^ 
 
 -:: !f .";^::t;:t^r lit:; 
 ?rnrr" "^ ^'^^ ^'-™--^an%:t:; 
 
 ARTICLE V.-MIHCELLANB017.S. 
 
 Con!!-/;- "^"^ '""'"'"''• "-^f^^ing to *»bide by the 
 Constitution, By-Laws, or Rules, or guilty of any 
 
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 im.s(lo.neanor calculated to discredit tlie S„ciotv 
 shall, upon proof thereof, be subject to censure' 
 or expulsion, as a majority of the members pre- 
 sent, at any regular )neeting, may determine. 
 
 !sec. 2. All members expelled the Society 
 shall, upon re-admission, be subject to the rules 
 for the initiation of members. 
 
 Sec. 3. All members expelled, when indebted 
 to the Society, shall, when re-admitted, be held 
 responsible for the amount due at the date of 
 expulsion. 
 
 Sec. 4. The Ward Committees shall, each in 
 turn, as called by the Secretary, collect at the 
 doors on public lecture nights ; and the others 
 ahall preserve order in the hall. 
 
 Sec. 5. On the Second Sunday of each month 
 a Public Lecture will be delivered under the 
 auspices and for the benefit of the Society 
 Such lectures to be attended by all members 
 wearing their badges. 
 
 Sec. 6. Business done on Lecture nights shall 
 be confined to administering the pledge, initiation 
 of, and receiving the dues from members and 
 the reception of reports from committees. 
 
 Sec. 7. All members are requested to attend 
 
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 the |,n},jie nieotiii^^s mul eneoiimoe, )>y uJl ^k,,^,;. 
 We means, tlie i>riiici])lf.s and practice of Total 
 Abstinence. 
 
 Sec. 8. All bills shall be paid out of the 
 funds of the Society. , 
 
 Sec. 9. "SJie Treasurer is tlie only person who 
 can pay any bill, and he shall require the sanc- 
 tion of this Society for all bills so paid, unless it 
 be an order for relief. 
 
 Sec. 10. No dues shall be refunded to any person 
 
 leaving the Society, let the cause be what it will. 
 
 Sec. 11. All members nominated for any 
 
 office shall be elected by ballot, unless there is 
 
 no opposition. 
 
 Sec. 12. Every member, on paying his initia- 
 tion fee, will receive a Register Ticket, which he ' 
 will present at the regular meetings to have 
 registered thereon, by the Financial Secretary, 
 his payments of monthly dues. 
 
 Sec. 13. On the decease of any member, the 
 Committee of the Ward in whieh he resided 
 shall, if necessary, ascertain from the Financial 
 Secretary whether he was in good standing on 
 the books, and, if such be the case, to report the 
 same to the Recording Secretary, 
 
 
 
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 8ec. 14. All the members shall go to Confes- 
 sion and Communion at least twice a year. 
 
 Sec. 15. The Recording Secretary shall audit 
 ' all accounts of the Society. 
 
 Sec. 16. A Gas Committee of two members 
 shall be appointed each year at the ^innual elec- 
 tion. , * t* 
 
 Sec. 17. In the event of the Society's meet- 
 ings being suspended, the President, or in his 
 absence the next senior officer, is hereby held— 
 six months after the last regular meeting— to 
 call a meeting of all the members, not in arrears 
 at the time of suspension, for the purpose of 
 voting and delivering to some charitable Institu- 
 tion or Society, under the patronage of the 
 Bishop, all moneys remaining in the hands of 
 the Treasurer, after the payment of all bills and 
 expenses contracted thereto by the Society. 
 
 Sec. 18. The Society shall have, according to 
 their discretion, the right to deal with all cases 
 and circumstances not herein provided for. 
 
RULES OF ORDER. 
 
 1. The Chairman shall not make or second any motion, nor 
 Shall he vote on any question except in case of a tie 
 
 2. When a member speaks or offers a motion, he shall rise i.j 
 his place and respectfully address the Chair 
 
 3 When two or more members rise at the same time, the 
 Chairman shall decide who has the floor 
 
 4 When a member is called to order, he shall take his seat 
 until the point is decided. 
 
 5. A nioUon shall be seconded, and afterwards repeated from 
 the Chair, before it is dobatod. 
 
 6 A member who shall have madea motion may, by consent 
 Of the seconder, withdraw or alter it before it is discussed ; but 
 
 comZc^. '"' """'""'' ■'""' ""^ '""'^" " ">« <>**'« has 
 7. Wlien a question is under debate, the only motions in or- 
 der shall be: 1st, to amend; 2nd, to amend an amendmen" 
 Srd, to adjourn ; 4th, to lie on the table ; 6tl., the previous 
 
 to mlTde.' *'"' *" '^'""'"'' ' ""' '" ''"" "^ " e;,„mittee78th! 
 
 a t^/-'"*';"^ "* ""' """'■'''"'" "' '"« "^"airman to put or not 
 a motion when an amendment of the nature of a full and 
 
 nfhlJ^"""" °' ^^J""™"*-' Shall take precedence of all 
 or »^e^~: *"" " ""* '" *" '""'""^ *""«"' ""'«''<' 
 
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 la \Micii the prcviouH .iutstion i« moved and seconded, it 
 
 ^^" . r; "^ ''''' '"''"' "''"" "^^ "^^^" ^"««ti«" be now 
 put If this 18 carried, all further debate or amendments 
 
 8hal! be precluded, and the question put without delay, com- 
 mencing: with the amendments (if any) first, and concluding 
 with the orig-inal motion. 
 
 11. A motion of reconsideration shall not be in order, unless 
 niadcV a member who had previously voted with the majorit v. 
 
 12. When the Chairman's decision of the result of a vote "is 
 questioned, the Recordinj,^ Secretary shall count the votes and 
 report to the Chair the number of affirmative and negative 
 votes. ^ 
 
 13. A motion affecting the funds to the extent of Twenty 
 Dollars or more, shall not be in order unless notice of such 
 motion be grivcn at a preceding- meeting. 
 
 14. No member shall be allowed to speak more than twice 
 and not longer than five minutes at a time upon any subject 
 unless by leave of the Chairman. 
 
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 ORDER OF BUSINESS. 
 
 1. 
 
 Lecture. • 
 
 2. 
 
 Initiation of Members. 
 
 3. 
 
 Roll Call of Officers and Committees. 
 
 4. 
 
 Roll Call of Members, Quarterly. 
 
 5. 
 
 Reading of Minutes. 
 
 6. 
 
 Payment of Dues. 
 
 7. 
 
 Report of Standing Committees. 
 
 8. 
 
 Quarterly Official Reports. 
 
 9. 
 
 Annual Report of Secretary. 
 
 10. 
 
 Reports of Special Comiiiittees. 
 
 11. 
 
 Bills against the Society presented. 
 
 12. 
 
 Adjourned Business. 
 
 13. 
 
 Election of Officers and Conniaiitees. 
 
 14. 
 
 Miscellaneous business. 
 
 15. 
 
 Receipts of the Evening. 
 
 16. 
 
 Adjournment.