BRISTOL-COUNTY HOMEOPATHIC MEDICAL SOCIETY. MIDDLESEX-COUNTY HOMEOPATHIC MEDICAL SOCIETY 193 194 195 196 197 197 197 197 MASSACHUSETTS SURGICAL AND GYNECOLOGICAL SOCIETY 66 "Members. Corresponding Members. MASSACHUSETTS HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION OF MEDICAL BOARD MASSACHUSETTS HOMOEOPATHIC HOS PITAL BOSTON HOMOEOPATHIC DISPENSARY Central Branch West-End Dispensary College Branch DISPENSARY ASSOCIATION BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE. 198 WORCESTER HOMEOPATHIC DISPENSARY ASSOCIATION ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF Medicine ACT OF INCORPORATION. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. IN THE YEAR ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY-SIX. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE MASSACHUSETTS HOMEOPATHIC MEDICAL SOCIETY. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by authority of the same, as follows: SECTION I. Samuel Gregg, William Wesselhoeft, Luther Clark, George Russell, Milton Fuller, John A. Tarbell, David Thayer, their associates and successors, physicians, be, and they hereby are, made a corporation by the name of the MASSACHUSETTS HOMEOPATHIC MEDICAL SOCIETY, with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, liabilities, and restrictions, set forth in the forty-fourth chapter of the Revised Statutes. SECT. 2. Said Corporation may hold real and personal estate to the amount of fifty thousand dollars. SECT. 3. The members of said Society shall not be liable to be mustered or enrolled in the militia of this Commonwealth. SECT. 4. The members of said Society, or such of their officers or members as they shall appoint, shall have full power and authority to examine all candidates for membership, concerning the practice of specific medicine and surgery, provided said candidates shall sustain a good moral character, and shall present letters testimonial of their qualifications from some legally authorized medical institution; and if, upon such examination, the said candidates shall be found qualified for membership, they shall receive the approbation of the Society. SECT. 5. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. BY-LAWS. REVISED AND ADOPTED, OCTOBER, 1884. OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY. I. Since homœopathy aims at the improvement and reformation of the art of healing by aid of medicines, proved by every means that promises to enlarge the knowledge of the laws governing the action of drugs, this Society hereby declares its objects to be, "The development of the materia medica by proving drugs upon the systems of men and animals; the administering of medicines thus proved, to the sick, in accordance with the formula similia similibus curantur; the encouragement of special studies and reports calculated to improve its members in the collateral branches of medicine." II. This Society demands for itself absolute liberty in science, and hence requires of its applicants for membership no creed or confession of medical belief, but only the expression of a willingness to act for the furtherance of its declared objects. SOCIETY. III. This Society shall consist of the persons named in the Act of Incorporation, and such other persons as may have been elected members in accordance with its By-Laws. OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY. IV. The Society, at its Annual Meeting, shall elect by ballot a president, two vice-presidents, corresponding secretary, recording secretary, treasurer, librarian, and five censors, who shall together constitute an executive committee, to whom shall be intrusted the general business of the Society when it is not in session; the appointment of all standing committees, and such other committees as they may deem expedient; and the selection of some suitable person to deliver an address, at the Annual Meeting of the Society, on some subject connected with medical science. At every Annual Meeting, they shall present a report of their proceedings during the past year, and shall also furnish a list of two candidates for each office of the Society for the ensuing year. They shall have power to remit the dues of worthy members who may produce satisfactory evidence that they are unable to pay. The officers shall continue in office till the adjournment of the Annual Meeting next after their election, at which time the duties of the newly elected officers shall commence. DUTIES OF THE OFFICERS. V. The President shall preside at all meetings of the Society and of the Executive Committee, and shall deliver an address before the Society at the commencement of the Annual Meeting. In case of the absence or other disability of the President, his duties shall devolve on the Vice-Presi dent by seniority, if present; otherwise, on such person as the meeting may appoint. Members shall not be eligible to the office of President more than once in five years. VI. The Corresponding Secretary shall have the charge and custody of all letters and communications transmitted to the Society; and to him they should be addressed. He shall prepare and transmit whatever communications the Society or Executive Committee may direct, and he shall perform such other duties as may be assigned to him. VII. The Recording Secretary shall give notice and keep a record of all the meetings of the Society and of the Executive Committee. He shall append to the notices of the Annual and Semi-Annual Meetings the names of those candidates for membership that have been reported to the Executive Committee. He shall have charge of all papers and communications belonging to the Society, and shall read at the meetings of the Society all such communications as the Executive Committee may direct. He shall notify the chairman of every committee appointed by the Society or Executive Committee, of his appointment, in each case stating the commission and the names of the committee. On or before the 1st of April, annually, he shall transmit to the Treasurer a list of all who have become members of the Society during the year. The Recording Secretary shall receive fifty dollars. annually as a compensation for the labors and duties incumbent upon the office. VIII. The Treasurer shall solicit and receive all money due to the Society, together with all bequests and donations, and shall pay all bills after they shall |