before a decision or amendment, except a motion to reconsider, which shall only be withdrawn by consent of the Association. 16. If the question under debate comprehends several propositions, in substance so distinct that one being taken away a substantive proposition shall remain for decision, any member may insist upon a division of the question. 17. When a motion has been once made and carried in the affirmative or negative, it shall be in order for any member who voted thereon in the majority to move a reconsideration thereof, at the same or the succeeding meeting, but a motion to reconsider shall be entertained but once on the same question, nor shall the vote be reconsidered when a motion for reconsideration has been decided. 18. When a question is pending, no motion shall be received but 1st. To adjourn. 2d. To lay on the table. 3d. For the previous question. 4th. To postpone to a day certain. 5th. To commit or amend. 6th. To postpone indefinitely. Which several motions shall have precedence in the order in which they are arranged; provided, however, that no motion to postpone to a day certain, to commit, or postpone indefinitely, being decided, shall be again allowed at the same meeting and at the same stage of the pending proposition. 19. A motion to adjourn shall be always in order, and this motion and the motion to lie on the table shall be decided without debate. 20. At each regular meeting of the Association, after the minutes of the last meeting shall have been read and approved, the order of business shall be as follows: 1. Report of the Executive Committee. 2. Reports of other Committees. 3. Unfinished business. 4. Business noticed for the meeting. 5. Miscellaneous business. Provided, that at the annual meeting of the Association, the report of the Board of Inspectors of Election may be received at any time that such report is ready to be presented after the report of the Executive Committee; and all questions as to priority of business shall be decided by the presiding officer without debate. 21. Reports of committees shall be made in writing, and in case of unanimous agreement thereto, signed by the chairman thereof, but otherwise by those members of the committee making the same. 22. The rules of parliamentary practice comprised in Cushing's Manual shall govern the Association in all cases to which they are applicable and in which they are not inconsistent with the foregoing rules and orders. OF THE LIBRARY. 1. A Librarian shall be annually appointed by the Executive Committee to take charge of the Library and perform the duties in relation thereto and otherwise prescribed by the by-laws. 2. An Assistant Librarian may be employed by the Executive Committee whenever they shall deem it necessary so to do. 3. The rules of the Library shall be as follows: 1. The Library shall be kept open every day (Sundays and Thursday evenings excepted) from 9 o'clock, A. M., to 9 o'clock, P. M. 2. No book or periodical shall be taken from the Library until the words "Young Men's Association of Chicago," have been written or stamped on the title page. 3. No periodical shall be taken from the Library until the succeeding number shall have been received. 4. Members may draw from the Library one volume if it be a folio or quarto, two volumes of one set of books, which are of octavo size, or two volumes of a smaller size. But no member shall be allowed to take more than one new book or publication at a time, until four months after the same has been placed in the Library. No person drawing books from the Library on the account of another, shall be allowed to take more than one book at a time for his own use on such account. No greater number of books shall be taken at one time by the same member, except by permissien of the Library Committee. 5. Every member may detain each book delivered as aforesaid, if it be a folio or quarto, three weeks, if an octavo or of less size, two weeks, except new publications, which shall not be detained longer than one week, nor be re-drawn, until they have been in the Library four months; and any member detaining a book longer than the time specified, shall forfeit and pay, for each volume so detained, five cents for every two days or part thereof. 6. No book shall be reserved by the Librarian for any member. 7. The Librarian shall report in writing to the Library Committee the name of any member who has detained a book six weeks over the time specified, and said committee shall thereupon notify such member, in writing, to return the same within two days; and in default thereof the delinquent shall be deprived of all the privileges of membership, and measures be taken by said committee at once to recover the value of the book so detained by him. 8. Members who shall deface any book belonging to the Library shall forfeit such sum as the Library Committee shall assess for such damage. 9. No member shall be permitted to take books from the Library while he is indebted to the Association for annual dues, or any portion thereof, or while any penalties inflicted or fines imposed upon him by and under the by-laws remain unpaid; and the Librarian shall be held to a rigid enforcement of this rule. 10. No member shall be permitted to take books from the Library without the knowledge and consent of the Librarian. 11. The Library Committee shall designate such books as are not to be taken from the Library. 12. The Librarian shall keep a record of all books taken from the Library, includ ing the name, number and size thereof, and the date when the same are taken. 13. Any lady, resident of Cook county, may become entitled to the use of the Library and reading rooms of the Association, upon payment of three dollars per year in advance, or at the same rate for any period less than a year. OF THE READING ROOM. 1. The Librarian shall have charge of the reading room, and the newspapers, periodicals, and other property pertaining thereto, and shall enforce the by-laws in relation to the same, subject to the direction of the Executive Committee and the sub-committee thereof on periodicals and newspapers. 2. No person shall be allowed access to the reading room except members of the Association and non-residents who have been introduced to the Association, as provided by the by-laws on that subject. 3. No member shall be allowed the privileges of the reading room who is indebted to the Association for the annual dues, or any portion thereof, or while any penalties inflicted or fines imposed upon him by and under the by-laws remain unpaid. 4. Members who shall mutilate any newspaper or periodical belonging to the Association, or remove the same from the files, shall forfeit such sum as the committee on periodicals and newspapers shall assess for such damage. OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 1. The Executive Committee shall meet at the rooms of the Association every other Saturday evening, unless otherwise ordered, at such hour as may be deemed expedient by the President. 2. The Committee shall be called to order at the hour named as the time of meeting, and the roll be called, and, a majority being present, the minutes of the last meeting shall be read, to the end that any mistakes or omissions therein may be corrected; and if a majority of the members do not attend at the time and place of meeting, those present shall have the power to adjourn to such time as they shall see fit, not exceeding two weeks. 3. After the calling of the roll and reading of the minutes, the order of business shall be as follows: 1. The proposal of persons for admission to membership in the Association. 2. Reports of Standing Committees. 3. Reports of Select Committees. 4. Communications from officers. 5. Unfinished business. 6. Business noticed for the meeting. 7. Miscellaneous business. And all questions as to priority of business shall be decided by the chair without debate. 4. The rules and orders of the Association shall be the rules and orders at the meetings of the Executive Committee, as far as the same are applicable. 5. The President shall have power to call special meetings of the Executive Committee. 6. At the request of any member, the yeas and nays shall be taken on the passage of any proposition pending before the Committee, and the vote recorded in the minutes. 7. At the first or second meeting of the Executive Committee for the year, following the annual election of offieers, or in case of failure to elect at such annual election, then the first or second meeting of the Executive Committee after such election is had, the President shall appoint the following Standing Committees, to consist of three members each, except the Library Committee, which shall consist of five: 1. A Library Committee. 2. A Committee on lectures. 3. A Committee on donations and subscriptions. 4. A Committee on rooms and fixtures. 5. A Committee on law. 6. A Committee on periodicals and newspapers. 7. A Committee on finance. Which several committees shall perform such duties as may be necessarily incident to the purposes of their appointment, and as may be required of them by the Executive Committee. 8. The Executive Committee shall have power to fill any vacancy that may exist in the officers of the Association, provided that such vacancy shall not be filled until at least one week after it occurs. 9. The Executive Committee shall make such arrangements for the delivery of lectures before the Association as they shall deem necessary and proper. 10. The Executive Committee shall have power to take such measures and employ such assistance for the collection of the revenue of the Association as they shall deem expedient. 11. If any member of the Executive Committee shall absent himself from the regular meetings of the Committee twice in one month, without sufficient explanation, he shall be requested by the Recording Secretary to attend said meetings or resign his office, and in default of such resignation his office may be declared vacated, at the option of the Executive Committee. OF SUSPENSION AND AMENDMENT OF BY-LAWS. The by-laws may be suspended at any regular meeting of the Association, by vote of the majority of the members present, and may be amended or rescinded by like majority vote, provided notice of the intention to submit the motion for such amendment or rescission shall have been given at the meeting preceding that at which action is asked thereon. LIFE MEMBERSHIP FUND. 1. All sums of money hereafter received by the Association to entitle persons to the privilege of life membership, or donated to the Association, shall be conveyed to and vested in Trustees, whose duty it shall be to invest the same from time to time in such manner as they shall deem proper. The principal of said moneys shall be and remain inviolate, and the income and issues thereof only shall be used. 2. George Manierre, Thomas B. Bryan. and Elisha S. Wadsworth, are hereby constituted and appointed Trustees, for such purpose, to continue in office until resignation or death. In case a vacancy shall occur in said Board of Trustees, the same shall be filled, by appointment, from the Life members of the Association, by a vote of the Executive Committee of the Association. 3. The Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Association shall keep an account of all such sums of money, and the same shall be conveyed by the Treasurer to said Trustees upon the written order of two or more of said Trustees. 4. The incomes and issues of such money shall be paid over by said Trustees to the Treasurer of the Association from time to time, as the same shall be received. 5. The incomes and issues of all sums of money conveyed to said Trustees, and not donated specifically by the donors for any other object, shall be used for the improvement and maintenance of the Library of the Association. The income and issues of all other sums shall be used for the specific objects for which the same shall be respecttively donated. The Treasurer shall keep an account of such incomes and of the funds to which they respectively belong. 6. The Treasurer shall pay out such moneys as are hereby appropriated upon the order of the Recording Secretary, countersigned by the President of the Association. [Adopted May 3, 1863.] NOTE.-By a resolution of the Association adopted Feb'y 4, 1865, Georgo S. Bowen, Esq., was elected to fill the vacancy in said Board of Trustees occasioned by the death of the Hon. George Manierre. |