)20 NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION. 
BY-LAWS. 
1. At each regular meeting of the Association there shall be appointed a Committee 
>n Nominations, one on Honorary Members, and one on Resolutions. 
2. The President and Secretary shall certify to the Board of Trustees all bills 
approved by the Board of Directors. 
3. Bach paying member of the Association shall be entitled to a copy of its 
2roceedings. 
4. No paper, lecture, or address shall be read before the Association or any of its 
departments in the absence of its author, nor shall any such paper, lecture, or address 
be published in the volume of Proceedings without the consent of the Association, upon 
wproval of the Executive Committee. 
5. It shall be the duty of the President, Secretary and Treasurer of the Association, to 
appoint annually some competent person to examine the securities of the permanent fund 
held by the Board of Trustees, and his certificate showing the condition of the said 
‘und shall be attached to the report of the Board of Trustees. 
ADOPTED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 
The establishment of a special fund from surplus receipts, after the 
oxpenses of the Association have been paid, to be known as the ¢“ Emer- 
vency Fund,” was recommended by the Board of Trustees, submitted 
;0 the Board of Directors, at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., July 12, 1892, and 
she following resolutions were adopted : 
Resolved, That there be established, as soon as the current expenses of the Associa- 
;ion will warrant, an Emergency Fund not to exceed $4,000. Said fund shall be sub- 
ject to expenditure by the Board of Trustees in accordance with votes of the Board of 
Directors at any regularly called meeting. The said fund may be used for the purpose 
of meeting deficiencies of income of the Association, and for such additional investiga- 
dons and publications as may be determined by said Board of Directors: and it is 
further 
Resolved, That the Board of Trustees be hereby authorized to transfer from the sur- 
plus funds of 1891-92, to the Emergency Fund, a sum not exceeding $2,500 ; and that 
additional transfers may be made to said fund from the surplus receipts ; and it is 
further 
Resolved, That the Trustees be and hereby are authorized to appropriate from the 
Emergency Fund sums duly authorized, not to exceed $2,500, the same to be expended 
by the Board of Trustees as recommended by the Board of Directors ; the said expendi- 
tures to be made upon duly approved vouchers, satisfactory to the Board of Trustees. 
The following by-laws pertaining to membership were also submitted to 
she Board of Directors and approved: 
First, The membership of this Association shall consist of two classes, to be styled 
respectively active and associate members, of whom active members alone shall be enti- 
bled to participate in the business of the Association and to hold office.