college, or chartered school of medicine, shall have the privilege of sending two delegates. The professional staff of every chartered or municipal hospital containing a hundred inmates or more, shall have the privilege of sending two delegates; and every other permanently organized medical institution of good standing shall have the privilege of sending one delegate.

The sum of three dollars shall be assessed, annually, upon each of the delegates to the sessions of the Association, as well as upon each of its permanent members, for the purpose of raising a fund to defray the expenses of printing the Transactions. The payment of this assessment shall be required of the delegates and members in attendance upon the sessions of the Association, previously to their taking their seats and participating in the business of the session; and of all others on or before the first of September in each year.

Each delegate and member who has paid his annual assessment, in accordance with the terms of the above resolution, shall be entitled to receive a copy of the printed Transactions of the session.

No individual who shall be under sentence of expulsion or suspension from any State or Local Medical Society, of which he may have been a member, shall be received as a delegate to this body, or be allowed any of the privileges of a member, until he shall have been relieved from the said sentence by such State or Local Society.

No one expelled from this Association shall at any time thereafter be received as a delegate or member, unless by a three-fourths vote of the members present at the meeting to which he is sent, or at which he is proposed.

No State or local society shall be entitled to representation in this Association, that has not adopted its Code of Ethics.

No State or local society that has intentionally violated or disregarded any article or clause in the Code of Ethics, shall any longer be entitled to representation in this body.

No organization or institution, entitled to representation in this Association, shall be considered in good standing, which has not adopted its Code of Ethics.

Delegates representing the medical staffs of the United States Army and Navy, shall be appointed by the Chiefs of the Army and Navy Medical Bureaux. The number of delegates so appointed shall be four from the army medical officers, and an equal number from the navy medical officers.

The Members by Invitation shall consist of practitioners of repu table standing, from sections of the United States not otherwise represented at the meeting. They shall receive their appointment by invitation of the meeting, after an introduction from, and being vouched for by, any of the members present, or any of the absent permanent members. They shall hold their connection with the Association until the close of the annual session at which they are received; and shall be entitled to participate in all its affairs, as in the case of delegates.

No assessment whatever shall be made against members by invitation, but they also shall be entitled to a copy of the printed Transactions, by paying the sum assessed upon delegates in attend

ance.

The Permanent Members shall consist of all those who have served in the capacity of delegates, and of such other members as may receive the appointment by unanimous vote.

No permanent member who is not present at a meeting of the Association, shall be required to pay the annual assessment; but no such permanent member shall be entitled to receive a copy of the printed Transactions unless he pay into the treasury a sum not less than the annual assessment paid by the delegates and permanent members in attendance; all the names of permanent members that have been left off the published list, shall be reinserted therein in the next volume of Transactions.

Permanent members shall at all times be entitled to attend the meetings, and participate in the affairs of the Association, so long as they shall continue to conform to its regulations, but without the right of voting; and, when not in attendance, they shall be authorized to grant letters of introduction to reputable practitioners of medicine residing in their vicinity, who may wish to participate in the business of the meetings, as provided for members by invitation.

Every member elect, prior to the permanent organization of the annual meeting, or before voting on any question after the meeting has been organized, must sign these regulations, inscribing his name and address in full, specifying in what capacity he attends, and, if a delegate, the title of the institution from which he has received his appointment.

No one shall be permitted to address the Association, except he shall have first given his name and residence, which shall be distinctly announced from the Chair, and the member be required to.

go forward and speak from the stand, and not more than ten minutes at one time.

It is the duty of every member of this Association, who learns that any existing medical school departs from the published conditions of graduation, to report the fact at the annual meetings; and that, on proof of the fact, such school shall be deprived of its representation in this body.

III. MEETINGS.

The regular meetings of the Association shall be held annually, and commence on the first Tuesday in May, or first Tuesday in June. The place of meeting shall never be the same for any two years in succession, and shall be determined, with the time of meeting, for each next succeeding year by vote of the Association.

IV. OFFICERS.

The officers of the Association shall be a President, four VicePresidents, two Secretaries, and a Treasurer. They shall be nominated by a special committee of one member from each State represented at the meeting, and shall be elected by vote on a general ticket. Each officer shall hold his appointment for one year, and until another is elected to succeed him.

The President shall preside at the meetings, preserve order and decorum in debate, give a casting vote when necessary, and perform all the other duties that custom and parliamentary usage may require.

The President shall be authorized annually to appoint delegates to represent this Association at the meetings of the British Association, the American Medical Society at Paris, and such other scientific bodies in Europe as may be affiliated with us.

The Vice-Presidents, when called upon, shall assist the President in the performance of his duties, and, during the absence, or at the request of the President, one of them shall officiate in his place.

The Secretaries shall record the minutes, and authenticate the proceedings, give due notice of the time and place of each next ensuing annual meeting, and serve as members of the Committee of Publication. The Secretary first in nomination shall also preserve the archives and unpublished transactions of the Association.

The Treasurer shall have the immediate charge and management of the funds and property of the Association. He shall be a mem

ber of the Committee of Publication, to which committee he shall give bonds for the safe keeping, and proper use and disposal of his And through the same committee he shall present his accounts, duly authenticated, at every regular meeting.

trust.

V. STANDING COMMITTEES.

The following standing committees shall be organized at every annual meeting, for preparing, arranging, and expediting business for each next ensuing year, and for carrying into effect the orders of the Association not otherwise assigned-namely, a Committee of Arrangements and a Committee of Publication.

The Committee of Arrangements shall, if no sufficient reasons prevent, be mainly composed of seven members residing in the place. at which the Association is to hold its next annual meeting; and shall be required to provide suitable accommodations for the meeting, to verify and report upon the credentials of membership, to receive and announce all essays and memoirs voluntarily communicated, either by members of the Association, or by others through them, and to determine the order in which such papers are to be read and considered.

The Committee of Publication, of which the Secretaries and Treasurer must constitute a part, shall have charge of preparing for the press, and of publishing and distributing such of the proceedings, transactions, and memoirs of the Association, as may be ordered to be published. The six members of this Committee, who have not the immediate management of the funds, shall also, in their own names, as agents for the Association, hold the bond of the Treasurer for the faithful execution of his office, and shall annually audit and authenticate his accounts, and present a statement of the same in the annual report of the Committee; which report shall specify the character and cost of the publications of the Association during the year, the number of copies still at the disposal of the meeting, the funds on hand for further operations, and the probable amount of the assessment to be laid on each member of the Association for covering its annual expenditures.

The Committee of Publication shall be instructed to print, conspicuously, at the beginning of the forthcoming volume of the Transactions, the following disclaimer, viz: The American Medical Association, although formally accepting and publishing the reports of the various standing committees, holds itself wholly irresponsible

for the opinions, theories, or criticisms therein contained, except when so decided by special resolution.

The Committee of Publication shall have power to furnish the chairmen of committees on epidemics with extra copies of their reports, respectively, at the expense of the Association-the said extra copies not to exceed one hundred.

It shall be the duty of the Publication Committee to append to each volume of the Transactions, hereafter published, a copy of the Constitution of the Association.

Every paper received by this Association and ordered to be published, and all plates or other means of illustration, shall be considered the exclusive property of the Association, and shall be published and sold for the exclusive benefit of the Association.

No report or other paper shall be entitled to publication in the volume for the year in which it shall be presented to the Association, unless it be placed in the hands of the Committee of Publication on or before the first of June. It must also be so prepared as to require no material alteration, or addition at the hands of its author.

Authors of papers are required to return their proofs within two weeks after their reception; otherwise they will be passed over and omitted from the volume.

The Committee of Publication shall be instructed to append the Code of Ethics of the American Medical Association to each vol ume of its annual Transactions.

It shall be the duty of the Committee of Publication to fix the price at which the printed Transactions of each session will be furnished to others than delegates and members; provided, that in no case shall the said price be less than three dollars.

The Committee on Prize Essays.-A committee of five members shall be appointed, to be called the Committee on Prize Essays, whose duty it shall be, in the interval between the present and the next succeeding sessions, to receive papers upon any subject, from any persons who may choose to send them, to decide upon the merits of these papers, and to select for presentation to the Association, at its next session, such as they may deem worthy of being thus presented.

The Committee on Prize Essays shall have power to form such regulations as to the mode in which the papers are to be presented and as to the observing of secrecy, as they may think proper.

The selection of the members of this committee shall be referred