LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 014 079 350 4 # F 74 .nee ne Copy 1 BY-LAWS OF MILTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY ADOPTED 21 JANUARY, 1905, AMENDED 6 JUNE, 1905, AND 4 JUNE, 1913. Article I. Name. This organization shall be called Milton Historical Society. Article II. Object. The corporation is constituted for the purpose of the study of the history of the Town of Milton, Massachusetts, its societies, organiza- tions, families, individuals and events, the collection and preservation of articles of historic value, the establishment and maintenance of an historical library, and the publication from time to time of such information relating to the same as shall be deemed expedient. Article III. Officers. There shall be a President, two Vice-Presidents, a Recording Secretary who shall be sworn, a Corresponding Secretary, a Treasurer and a Librarian, who shall severally perform the usual duties of their respective offices, and who together shall constitute a Board of Direc- tors having the general management of the business of the Society in all ways not conflicting with these by-laws or the laws of the Common- wealth. These officers shall be elected by ballot annually at the regular June meeting, as hereinafter provided, and shall hold office until their successors are chosen and qualified. Meetings of the Board of Directors may be called upon two days" notice. Article IV. Vacancies. Vacancies in any office or in the Board of Directors, by reason of death, resignation or inability to act, may be filled by a majority vote of the remaining Directors although they are less than a quorum, and the officers and Directors so elected shall hold office until the next annual meeting and until others are chosen and qualified in their stead. .|v\(pip|VI(o Article V. Members. Members shall be of two classes, regular and honorary. Regular members only shall be entitled to hold office or to vote at the meetings of the Society. Honorary members shall have no vote, and shall be exempt from dues and assessments. New members may be elected by a two-thirds vote of those present and voting at any regular meeting of the Society, or at any special meeting called for the purpose, and shall become members upon payment within four months of dues for the year in which they were elected. Article VI. Dues. The annual dues shall be one dollar, payable in advance at the regular June meeting, or in case of newly elected members, as soon as they receive notice of their election. A member elected at the February meeting and duly qualified, shall not be called upon for further dues until the date of the annual meeting sixteen months from the time of his election. Any one who is in default for his annual dues for two whole years shall thereupon cease to be a member; but he maybe reinstated by the Board of Directors on payment of all his then exist- ing dues. The Board of Directors may in their discretion, by a unanimous vote, abate the dues of any member who has done special service for the Society. Regular members may become life members upon payment of twenty-five dollars, and shall thereafter be exempt from all further dues and assessments. Article VII. Meetings of the Society. The annual meeting shall be held on the first Wednesday in June. Regular meetings shall be held on the first Wednesdays of October and February ; but the Board of Directors may by vote alter the day of any regular meeting. Special meetings may be called at any time by the President, by the Board of Directors, or by ten members of the Society. Notice of all meetings shall be given by the Recording Secretary, by mailing the same to each member of the Society at his address as it appears on the books of the Society, seven days at least before the date of the meeting. In the event of the annual meeting, by mistake or otherwise, not eiffc being called or held as herein prescribed, the Board of Directors shall order a special meeting to be called and held in lieu of and for the purposes of the annual meeting. Fifteen members shall constitute a quorum at any meeting. Article VIII. Standing Committees. There shall be a Nominating Committee consisting of three mem- bers, and an Auditing Committee consisting of two members. The members of these committees shall be neither officers nor Directors. They shall be elected at each annual meeting of the Society, and serve for one year and until their successors are elected and qualified. The duties of the Nominating Committee shall be as set forth in Article IX. of these by-laws. The duties of the Auditing Committee shall be to audit the accounts of the Treasurer and report thereon at each annual meeting. Article IX. Nominations. The Nominating Committee shall, by or before the fifteenth day of May in each year, send to the Recording Secretary a written list of nominations for all offices to be filled at the annual meeting, and this list shall be sent by the Recording Secretary with the call for the annual meeting to all the regular members of the Society. Other nominations may be made for any office at the annual meeting. Article X. Permanent Fund. All fees from life membership shall be kept invested by the Treasurer. All sums given or devised to the Society without specific directions as to their use shall be added to such investment : any sum or sums may be so added, and the whole shall be known as the Per- manent Fund. The interest of the Permanent Fund may be used for current expenses, or added to the principal if so voted from time to time by the Directors, but the principal shall be expended only upon authori- zation by a two-thirds vote of those present and voting at a meeting of the Society duly called for the purpose. Article XI. Amendments. These by-laws may be amended by a two-thirds vote of those present and voting at any meeting, provided the substance of the pro- posed amendment has been given in the call for the meeting. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 014 079 350 4 1^ LIBRARY OF CONGRESS llllllillllllll 014 079 350 4 •