| Section 1. | The annual election of the officers of the Society and the Board of Directors, shall take place on the second Thursday of March of each year. The election shall be by ballot, and all officers voted for shall be on one ticket, viz: a President, a Vice President, a Secretary, a Treasurer—all of whom shall be ex-officio members of the Board of Directors, and three Directors. In voting for the three Directors cumulative voting shall be allowed, as provided for in the corporation laws of the State of California. |
| Sec. 2. | The polls shall be open from 9 o'clock A.M. to 3 o'clock P. M., during which time any person who has been a member of the Society for ten days, and none others shall be allowed to vote. |
| Sec. 3. | The Board of Directors shall appoint a Clerk and two Judges of Election, whose duty it shall be to take charge of the election, register all voters, see that none but members vote, and count the votes and make returns to the Board of Directors, who shall hold a meeting immediately after the canvass is completed, or the next day, as they may elect, to receive the returns of the election officers, and declare the result. |
| Sec. 4. | Twenty members shall constitute a quorum of the Society at any regular or special meeting. |
| Sec. 5. | A plurality vote shall elect the officers and the members of the Board of Directors at the annual election. |
| Sec. 6. | The Board of Directors shall have power to fill all vacancies occurring in the Board, or in any of the officers of the Society. |
| Sec. 7. | A majority of the Board of Directors shall constitute a quorum of that body. |
| Sec. 9. | Members of the Society, under the By-Laws as they existed prior to December 14, 1878. shall continue to be members until suspended for non-payment of dues, by being six months in arrears. |
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