ARTICLE V.

The officers of the Socicty shall be a President, Vice President, Corresponding Secretary, Recording Secretary, Treasurer, and eighteen Trustees and an Auditor. The President, Vice President, Corresponding and Recording Secretaries and Treasurer, shall each be ex officio members of the board of Trustees, and the Recording Secretary shall be the recording officer of that board. These officers shall all be chosen by ballot at the Annual Meeting.

ARTICLE VI.

The President shall be ex officio Chairman of the Board of Trustees; and he, and also the Vice President and Secretaries and Treasurer shall perform the duties usually incumbent on such officers respectively.

ARTICLE VII.

The Trustees shall have the management of all the concerns of the Society, except the choice of such officers as by the Act. of Incorporation is vested in the Society, and they shall prescribe the duties of all officers, direct the collection and appropriation of all funds and donations, and generally have and possess all the power and authority vested by the act aforesaid in the Society. It shall be their duty, however, at every Annual Meeting, to make and lay before the Society a particular report of all their doings, with all such documents and vouchers as may be asked for by any member, and such report shall be had and considered before the Society shall proceed to the choice of Trustees, for the year then next ensuing.

ARTICLE VIII.

The Annual Meeting of the Society shall be holden on the Monday preceding the last Wednesday in May in each year, and at this meeting it shall be competent to transact any business which the Society can lawfully do. Notice of this meeting shall be given by the Recording Secretary at least seven days before the holding thereof, by notice published in at least one newspaper in Boston.

ARTICLE IX.

Special meetings of the Society may be called at any time by the Trustees, of which notice shall be given in at least three

newspapers published in Boston, and no business shall be transacted at such meeting, excepting that which is specified in the notice.

ARTICLE X.

The Trustees shall hold regular semi-annual meetings in March and September, in each year, and such other special meetings as they may direct, or as the President may at any time call. Five Trustees shall be a quorum to transact business.

ARTICLE XI.

The Trustees, at their first meeting after their election, annually, shall choose from their own body an Executive Committee, a Committee on Agencies, and a Committee on the Depository,each of said Committees to consist of three persons.

ARTICLE XII.

The Executive Committee shall have the management of the funds, and the gratuitous distribution of the books procured with them ;-the Committee on Agencies shall have the direction of all matters connected with the agencies of the Society, the appointment of all agents, subject to the approval of the Trustees, and the defining of their respective duties;-the Committee on the Depository shall have the management of all matters connected with the Society's depository for the sale of Bibles,-all of said Committees at all times, however, to be subject to the direction and control of the Trustees in all respects.

ARTICLE XIII.

These By-Laws may be repealed or amended at any annual meeting, or at any special meeting duly called for that purpose, by vote of a majority of those present.

PRIVILEGES OF LIFE MEMBERS.

Each Life Member of this Society shall be allowed to receive from the Depository annually, four copies of the Common Bible, or the value thereof, ($1.00,) in Bibles and Testaments.

N. B. The above books will be delivered to members by personal application, or to their order; and they can be issued only for the current, not for past years.

MEMBERS FOR LIFE,

BY VIRTUE OF A CONTRIBUTION OF TWENTY DOLLARS AND UPWADRS.

ANNUAL SUBSCRIBERS.