An account of the origin and progress of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb : with a list of the contributors, &c / Published by order of the directors.

  • Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb.
Date:
1821
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An account of the origin and progress of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb : with a list of the contributors, &c / Published by order of the directors. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    previous to said day, shall be bound to pay in advance to the day of the first succeeding annual meeting, but to that of the second period after his signing. Sec. IX. No person shall be considered a member until he shall have signed the constitution, and paid the sum of two dol¬ lars, the amount of the first year’s contribution, agreeable to the provisions of the seventh section of these by-laws. Sec. X. The officers of the institution, and the board of di¬ rectors, shall be elected by ballot, by the members in person, (and not by proxy) who shall have paid their dues up to the period of the election; the name of each candidate shall be written or printed on the same ticket, designating the office intended, and the person having the highest number of votes shall be de¬ clared duly elected. Notice shall be given by the recording se¬ cretary, of the time and place of holding the election, through the medium of one or more of the newspapers, for at least three days previous thereto. Sec. XI. Special meetings may be called by the president, the board of directors, or at the request of ten members ad¬ dressed in writing to the president. Sec. XII. Any member who shall refuse or neglect to pay the annual contributions for three years successively, shall be deemed as having relinquished his right of membership; a re¬ turn of all delinquents shall be made by the treasurer once in every year to the board of directors, who shall act thereon as they may deem expedient to enforce the payment. Sec. XIII. Twenty-five members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of the ordinary business of the institution. Sec. XIV. In case that any office shall become vacated by re¬ signation or otherwise, such vacancy shall be supplied by the board of directors until the next election. Sec. XV. The unappropriated funds of the institution may be invested in stock, or deposited in the Saving Fund Society, by the board of directors, whenever they may consider it expe ¬ dient so to do. Sec. XVI. All evidences of stock belonging to the institution shall be held in the name of the treasurer, in trust for the Penn¬ sylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, until the associa¬ tion may become incorporated, when they shall be held under the corporate title.