Page 12 - La Société canadienne d'histoire de l'Église catholique - Rapport 1961

12 IVISCONSIN IIISTOBICAL COLLECTIONS.
Wisconsin, and may take proper steps to promote the sttldy of
history by lectures, and to publish and diffuse information
relative to the description and history of the State.
ART. 11.-This Society shall consist of Active, Life, Hono-
rary and Corresponding members; which classes may be chosen
at the annual or special meetings of the Society, or st the
sessions of the Executive Committee; the Active members to
consist of citizens of the State, by the payment of two dollars
annually; the Life members, by the payment, at one time, of
twenty dollars; the Honorary and Corresponding members, who
shall be exempt from fee or taxation, shall be chosen from
persons, in every part of tlle world, distinguished for their lite-
rary or scientific attainments, and known especially as friends
and promoters of American history.
ART. 111.-The officers of the Sociely &all be chosen by
ballot at the annual meetings, and shall corlsist of a President,
a Corresponding Secretary, a Recording Secretary, a, Treasurer,
a Librarian, who, togcthcr with six Vicc Presidents, not resi-
dents of Madison, and eighteen Curators, shall constitute the
Exccutive Commiltec. All said o6ccrs shall hold offico for
one year, and until theil. succcssors bc chosen, cxcept such
as may liave bccn absent from four successive regular mectings
of the Executivc Comrnittcc, unlcss cletaincd by sickness or
absence from Msdison, who ]nay Le deenled to have forfeited
their respective offices; and shall, if so decli~red, bc ineligible to
ofice the year next ensiling.
And in addition Lo th~sc elective oiIiocrs, all donations of
property by citizerls of Wisconsin, if :~cccbpted by the Excc~ltivc
Committee, to the amount or value of five hundretl tlollare, ahall
constitute such tlonors LIYE DI~LBCTORS the Socicty, and
of
co~lsequently merubcrs of the Executive Comrnittce during their
natural lives; but such Life Directors shall never exceed in
number the regularly elected mcnibe~s of the Exccutive Commit-
tee, and all uloneys from Life Directorships, or from beqncsts,
unless specifically directed by sucli Life Directors or dovisors to
be invested to the best advantage, and the accruing intercst only