ber has been instructed to call the attention of a practitioner in an adjoining city to this matter and have him come within the line. Others are requested to take notice of this action. If it is not followed out, it is feared the board will have some unpleasant work to do next year.

Dr. J. F. Alexander was stricken from the honorary list for

.cause.

Resolved, That as the facts are proven to this board that Dr. R. W. Trotter did make formal application for membership in the Georgia Medical Association in 1894, that at the time he paid his fee and was properly vouched for, and on account of some oversight his name has never been entered as a member, we recommend him for membership.

On motion, the report of the Board of Censors was adopted.

Dr. Morgan moved that the thanks of the Association be extended to the Board of Censors for their efficient and laborious work during the meeting.

Seconded and carried.

The next thing in order was the election of officers for the ensuing year.

The President appointed as tellers Drs. Hurt and Elliott.

The election resulted as follows:

President: Dr. J. B. Morgan, Augusta.

First Vice-President: Dr. L. G. Hardman, Harmony Grove.

Second Vice-President:

Dr. J. L. Hiers, Savannah.

The President: There is a vacancy on the Board of Censors. I believe Dr. Hicks's term expires with this meeting, and you will prepare for an election to fill the vacancy. Dr. Westmoreland: I rise to a point of order.

The President: Please state your point of order.

Dr. Westmoreland: Dr. Hicks was elected at the Savannah meeting for the term of five years.

The Secretary was asked whether he had a copy of the "Transactions for 1895. He replied that he had not.

Dr. Morgan: Dr. Hicks seems to have been elected to fill an unexpired term.

Dr. Barron: Dr. Williams was elected for five years at the Savannah meeting, and Dr. Hicks to fill an unexpired

term.

Dr. Foster: I believe the records of the Association will show this, from which there can be no appeal. The records are the official action of the Society. I have heard several gentlemen say that Dr. Hicks was elected to fill the unexpired term, and Dr. Williams for the full term.

Dr. Drake: I move that we proceed to the election of a Censor to fill the expired term of Dr. Hicks.

Seconded.

The Secretary: I would state that the list of officers, with the terms of censors, as they are published in the volume of Transactions for 1896, was submitted to the Committee on Publication by the Secretary after he had received his report from the stenographer. It was approved by the Publication Committee and published in the Transactions as you see it in the volume for 1896.

Dr. Westmoreland: I would ask the Secretary if he does not know that the record is incorrect.

The Secretary: If there is any error in the record regarding this matter, it was made before I was elected Secretary. I really believed that it was right.

Dr. Drake's motion was then put and carried.

The Society then proceeded to elect a member to fill the vacancy on the Board of Censors, which resulted in the election of Dr. Hicks for the term of five years.

Dr. Williams: I desire to make a motion that the Transactions of 1895 relative to this matter be carefully examined, and that a committee be appointed to investigate it and report at the next meeting simply as a matter of record, in order that the records of the Association may be straightened out. In 1895, at the Savannah meeting, Drs. Hicks,

McMaster and myself were elected on the Board of Censors without any statement as to the term of service.

Seconded.

Dr. Drake: I move, as an amendment, that the committee to be appointed report immediately at this meeting, if possible.

Seconded.

Dr. Williams: It is impossible to do that.

Dr. Foster: I move, as a substitute, that the Board of Censors, with their terms as laid down in the Transactions, be formally ratified by this Association. I refer now to the Transactions of 1896. My position is this: 'The Transactions of 1896 are the official record of the Association, and we have no right to appeal unless an error can be shown to exist. The way to straighten this matter out is to formally ratify the report.

Dr. Drake: Two wrongs do not make a right. If there was an error committed in 1896, and the records of 1895 were correct, then this body has a right to amend its action in 1897 by correcting it to conform to what was right in 1895. The motion is consistent with the conditions that we find in the Transactions as published by the Association, and I support it very cordially.

The substitute was seconded by Dr. Elliott.

The President: I understand that Dr. Williams's motion is to gather information and report back to the Society so that it can take action on it, and I shall be glad under the circumstances if Dr. Foster will withdraw his substitute in order to facilitate work.

Dr. Goodrich: By some mistake the Secretary or the Publication Committee made an error in the volume of Transactions of 1895 in not entering the censors who were elected in regular order, and putting it in the volume of 1896. But they did the best they could from the information at their command.

Dr. Taylor: As Dr. Goodrich has just stated, at the Savannah meeting, when Dr. Howell was Secretary, he failed to get the time when the terms of the members of the Board of Censors expired. With the consent of the Committee on Publication, who is the highest authority for ratifying these minutes, the matter was so referred, and the committee at that time trusted largely to memory. Every member of the Publication Committee was present at the Savannah meeting, and from their understanding the terms of service of the censors were fixed as published in the Transactions of 1896.

Dr. Foster's substitute was then put and carried.

The next thing in order was the consideration of the Constitution and By-Laws, but before the Secretary proceeded to read the Constitution, the President said: “Under the present Constitution and By-Laws all amendments to the Constitution must lie over for one year. Amendments presented at this meeting will be received, but final action will not be taken upon them at this meeting. If it your pleasure to have the Constitution read, we will have it done by the Secretary."

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Dr. Drake: I move that we postpone the consideration of the report of the Committee on Constitution and By-Laws until 2:30 p. m.

Dr. Kime: I move that the Constitution and By-Laws be placed on record with any amendments that any of the members may see fit to put in writing, and that they be published and adopted at the next meeting, and a copy furnished to each member of the Association.

Seconded.

Dr. Drake: I understand that a committee was appointed last year to revise the Constitution and By-Laws, and this committee has presented its report, which has been accepted by this body. It is now in order for any amendments to be offered, and I do not see why they should lie

over until next year. I believe they can be acted upon at this time. It is now in order, it seems to me, to adopt or otherwise dispose of the committee's report.

The President: These amendments were not presented last year. No member has a right to present amendments in the interval of the meeting. The Association would not recognize the principle of allowing any committee to bring amendments before it without full authority. I shall therefore rule that these amendments were not accepted by this Association until presented by the report of the committee on the first day. These amendments and such other amendments as may be made at this meeting must lie over until the Constitution comes up for final action next year. The section plainly states that "any amendment that may be offered to the Constitution shall lie over until the next annual meeting, and for its adoption at such meeting shall require a two-thirds vote of all present and voting." That is the ruling.

Dr. Drake: I would like to say that the ruling laid down by the President is intended simply for changes or amendments that may be presented at this meeting, and has no bearing upon amendments which the committee has offered which has been appointed and empowered to do this work.

Dr. Kime's motion was carried.

The next business before the Association was the reception of amendments to the By-Laws.

The President: I will state for the benefit of those members who make amendments to the Constitution, that they should be handed in to the Secretary, unless it is the pleasure of the Association to have them read.

Dr. Currie: Do you consider the changes made by the Committee on Revision of the Constitution and By-Laws in your rulings to-day?