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CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS XV
CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS
OF THE
SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE AND EXEGESIS
(As Amended Deo. 28, igoi)
CONSTITUTION
This association shall be called " The Society of Biblical Literature
and Exegesis."
11
The object of the Society shall be to stimulate the critical study of the
Scriptures by presenting, discussing, and publishing original papers on
Biblical topics.
in
The officers of the Society shall be a President, a Vice-President, a
Recording Secretary, a Corresponding Secretary, and a Treasurer, who,
with five others, shall be united in a Council. These shall be elected
annually by the Society, with the exception of the Corresponding Secre-
tary, who shall be elected annually by the Council. Additional members
of the Council shall be the Presidents of the Sections hereinafter pro-
vided for. There shall be also a Publishing Committee, consisting of
the Corresponding Secretary and two others, who shall be annually
chosen by the Council.
IV
Members shall be elected by the Society upon the recommendation
of the Council. They may be of two classes, active and honorary.
Honorary members shall belong to other nationalities than that of the
United States of America, and shall be especially distinguished for their
attainments as Biblical scholars. The number of honorary members
chosen at the first election shall be not more than ten ; in any succeeding
year not more than two.
v
The Society shall meet at least once a year, at such time and place
as the Council may determine. On the first day of the annual meeting
the President, or some other member appointed by the Council for the
purpose, shall deliver an address to the Society.
Sections, consisting of all the members of the Society residing in a
particular locality, may be organized, with the consent of the Council,
XVI SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL LITEEATUEE
for the object stated in Article II, provided that the number of members
composing any Section shall not be less than twelve. Each Section
shall annually choose for itself a President, whose duty it shall be to
preside over its meeting, and to take care that such papers and notes read
before it as the Section may judge to be of sufficient value are transmitted
promptly to the Corresponding Secretary of the Society. The Sections
shall meet as often as they shall severally determine, provided that their
meetings do not interfere with the meetings of the Society.
This constitution may be amended by a vote of the Society, on recom-
mendation of the Council, such amendment having been proposed at a
previous meeting, and notice of the same having been sent to the members
of the Society.
BY-LAWS
It shall be the duty of the President, or, in his absence, of the Vice-
President, to preside at all the meetings of the Society; but, in the
absence of both these officers, the Society may choose a presiding officer
from the members present.
ii
It shall be the duty of the Recording Secretary to notify the members,
at least two weeks in advance, of each meeting, transmitting to them at
the same time the list of papers to be presented at the meeting ; to keep a
record of the proceedings of such meetings; to preserve an accurate
roll of the members ; to make an annual report of the condition of the
Society ; to distribute its publications, and to do such other like things
as the Council may request.
in
It shall be the duty of the Corresponding Secretary to conduct the
correspondence of the Society, and in particular, to use his best efforts
for the securing of suitable papers and notes to be presented to the
Society at each meeting ; to prepare a list of such papers, and to place it
in the hands of the Recording Secretary for transmission to the mem-
bers ; to receive all papers and notes that shall have been presented, and
lay them before the Publishing Committee.
IV
It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to take charge of all the funds
of the Society, and to invest or disburse them under the direction of the
Council, rendering an account of all his transactions to the Society at
each annual meeting.
CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS XVU
It shall be the duty of the Council to propose candidates for member-
ship of the Society; to elect the Corresponding Secretary and the addi-
tional members of the Publishing Committee ; to fix the times and places
for meetings, and generally to supervise the interests of the Society.
It shall be the duty of the Publishing Committee to publish the pro-
ceedings of the Society, and also to select, edit, and publish, as far as the
funds of the Society will justify, such papers and notes from among
those laid before them, as shall in their judgment be fitted to promote
Biblical science.
VII
The fee for admission into the Society shall be five dollars, besides
which each member shall annually pay a tax of three dollars; but
libraries may become members without the fee for admission, from
which, also, members permanently residing abroad shall be exempt.
The donation at one time, by a single person, of fifty dollars shall
exempt the donor from all further payments, and no payments shall
be required of honorary members.
VIII
Each member shall be entitled to receive, without additional charge,
one copy of each publication of the Society after his election ; in addition
to which, if he be a contributor to the Journal, he shall receive twenty-
five copies of any article or articles he may have contributed.
Five members of the Council, of whom not less than three shall have
been elected directly by the Society, shall constitute a quorum thereof.
Twelve members of the Society shall constitute a quorum thereof for the
transaction of business, but a smaller number may continue in session
for the purpose of hearing and discussing papers presented.
The following resolution, supplementary to the By-Laws, with refer-
ence to the price at which members may procure extra copies of the
Journal, was adopted June 13th, 1884.
Resolved : That the Secretary be authorized to furnish to members,
for the purpose of presentation, additional copies of any volume of the
Journal, to the number of ten, at the rate of $1 a copy, but that the price
to persons not members be the amount of the annual assessment.
