CONSTITUTION OF THE AMERICAN PHILOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION 1 ARTICLE I.-NAME AND OBJECT 1. This Society shall be known as "The American Philological Association." 2. Its object shall be the advancement and diffusion of philological knowledge. ARTICLE II. - OFFICERS 1. The officers shall be a President, two Vice-Presidents, a Secretary and Curator, and a Treasurer. 2. There shall be an Executive Committee of ten, composed of the above officers and five other members of the Association. 3. All the above officers shall be elected at the last session of each annual meeting. 4. An Assistant Secretary, and an Assistant Treasurer, may be elected at the first session of each annual meeting, on the nomination of the Secretary and the Treasurer respectively. ARTICLE III. - MEETINGS 1. There shall be an annual meeting of the Association in the city of New York, or at such other place as at a preceding annual meeting shall be determined upon. 2. At the annual meeting, the Executive Committee shall present an annual report of the progress of the Association. 3. The general arrangements of the proceedings of the annual meeting shall be directed by the Executive Committee. 4. Special meetings may be held at the call of the Executive Committee, when and where they may decide. ARTICLE IV. - MEMBERS 1. Any lover of philological studies may become a member of the Association by a vote of the Executive Committee and the payment of five dollars as initiation fee, which initiation fee shall be considered the first regular annual fee. 1 As amended December 28, 1907. cxliii 2. There shall be an annual fee of three dollars from each member, failure in payment of which for two years shall ipso facto cause the membership to cease. 3. Any person may become a life member of the Association by the payment of fifty dollars to its treasury, and by vote of the Executive Committee. ARTICLE V.- SUNDRIES 1. All papers intended to be read before the Association must be submitted to the Executive Committee before reading, and their decision regarding such papers shall be final. 2. Publications of the Association, of whatever kind, shall be made only under the authorization of the Executive Committee. Amendments to this Constitution may be made by a vote of two-thirds of those present at any regular meeting subsequent to that in which they have been proposed. ADMINISTRATIVE RESOLUTIONS CERTAIN matters of administration not specifically provided for in the Constitution have been determined from time to time by special votes of the Association, or of its Executive Committee. The more important of these actions still in force are as follows: — 1. WINTER MEETINGS. On September 19, 1904, the Association, which had been accustomed to hold its annual meetings in the month of July, voted, "That, by way of experiment, the next two meetings of the Association be held during Convocation Week in 1905 and 1906" (PROCEEDINGS, XXXV, li). At the second of the annual meetings under this vote, held at Washington, January 2-4, 1907, it was voted "That until further notice the Association continue the practice of a winter meeting, to be held between Christmas and New Year's, if possible in conjunction with the Archaeological Institute of America" (XXXVII, Xi). This action was further confirmed at the Baltimore meeting, December 30, 1909 (XL, Xii). 2. NOMINATING COMMITTEE. On July 8, 1903, the Association, in session at New Haven, voted to establish a permanent Nominating Committee of five members, one of whom retires each year after five years of service, and is replaced by a successor named by the President of the Association. In accordance with the terms of the vote in question the standing Committee on Nominations was confirmed by the Association at the Toronto meeting (XXXIV, xix, xlvi; XXXIX, xii). The present membership of the Committee is as follows: — Professor Herbert Weir Smyth, Chairman. Professor Samuel Ball Platner. Professor Edward Capps. Professor Elmer Truesdell Merrill. Professor Charles E. Bennett. 3. PHILOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE PACIFIC COAST. On July 5, 1900, the Association, in session at Madison, accepted the recommendation of the Executive Committee defining the terms of affiliation between the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast and the American Philological Association (XXXI, xxix; cf. XXXII, lxxii). 4. SALARY OF THE SECRETARY AND TREASURER. In July, 1901, the Executive Committee fixed the salary of the Secretary and Treasurer at $ 300, to include any outlay for clerical assistance (XXXII, lxxii). 5. PUBLISHING CONTRACT. The contract with Messrs. Ginn & Co. has been renewed July 1, 1906, by authority of the Executive Committee, on the same terms as for the preceding lustrum (cf. XXXII, lxxii). cxlv |