SEC. 2. No alteration or amendment of this Constitution shall be made unless the same be proposed at a previous regular meeting, and then posted in a conspicuous place in the rooms of the Association, and be finally adopted at a subsequent meeting by the votes of two-thirds of the members present at the passage thereof.

SEC. 3. By-Laws, Rules and Regulations, not inconsistent with the Charter or this Constitution, may be made, adopted, altered or repealed, at any monthly or annual meeting: provided, the proposed by-law, rule, regulation, alteration or repeal, shall have been proposed at a previous monthly meeting, and then posted in a conspicuous place in the rooms of the Association, and shall be adopted by the votes of two-thirds of the members present at the passage thereof.

BY-LAWS.

SECTION I. No book, journal, paper, picture, statue, or other work of art, the property of the Association, shall be taken from the rooms, under any pretext whatever, except by authority of the Board of Management.

SEC. 2. On the first day of each month, or as soon thereafter as may be practicable, there shall be sent to each member notice of his indebtedness to the Association on the last day of the preceding month, and if the same is not paid on or before the fifteenth day of the month the names of the members so in default, together with the amounts due, shall be posted on a separate sheet in the hall, and such members shall be refused further credit until their indebtedness is discharged.

In case any such indebtedness shall not be discharged at the expiration of a month from the date of such first notice, a second notice shall be mailed to the member in default, notifying him thereof, and that in case he continues in such default for ten days thereafter, he will be excluded from all privileges of the Association until such indebtedness is paid, and such member shall thereupon, upon the expiration of such ten days, be so excluded, and notice to that effect shall thereupon be posted on a separate sheet in the hall.

A copy of this By-Law shall be sent with such second notice.

SEC. 3. A suggestion book shall be kept at the rooms, in which every member is authorized to enter, under his signature, any complaint as to the management of the Association, and any suggestions he may desire to make.

SEC. 4. Members may personally introduce visitors to the rooms; in which case their names, and those of the parties introducing them, must be entered in a book to be kept for that purpose. This privilege is limited to one introduction by the same member, unless extended by consent of the Board of Management, and it may be suspended by the Board of Management at its discretion, with regard to any individual member or visitor, by a notice in writing, signed by its Secretary and addressed to such person. At monthly or annual meetings each visitor must be provided with a card of admission, signed by a member of the Association, and no one residing in the City of New York, or within twenty-five miles thereof, shall be admitted to any such meeting oftener than once in any one year, except by the consent of the Board of Management.

On the two days following a monthly meeting, between the hours of twelve, noon, and four in the afternoon, ladies, with the gentlemen accompanying them, or without gentlemen, may be admitted to the picture gallery only, on presenting a card signed by a member.

SEC. 5. The House Committee shall have the charge of furnishing supplies, employing stewards and servants, and keeping the rooms and premises of the Association in order for use, and enforcing the rule as to admission of visitors.

SEC. 6. The Committee on Literature shall have charge of the Library, and of the supply of books, periodicals and news

papers.

SEC. 7. The Committee on Art shall have charge of all works of art owned or possessed by the Association; and it shall be their duty to make arrangements for exhibition, at monthly and annual meetings, of the works of artists of the Association, and other works of art, at their discretion. They shall keep a catalogue of the works of art owned or possessed by the Association, or exhibited in its rooms, and shall record therein every such work, with the name of the author, the title of the work, and the time of exhibition. The Committee on Art shall have charge of all decorations of the rooms.

SEC. 8. The expenditures of the House Committee, and the Committees on Literature and Art, shall be limited to such sums as the Board of Management shall prescribe.

SEC. 9. A perfect list of members, Officers and Committees shall be kept posted up in the rooms of the Association; and such list shall be corrected under the direction of the Treasurer and Secretary, from time to time, as changes occur.

SEC. IO.

The above By-Laws shall go into effect on the second Saturday of January, 1870.

Added to the By-Laws April 4th, 1891.

Loud or continuous conversation shall not be carried on in the Library, nor except on Saturday nights shall refreshments be served therein.

HOUSE RULES.

I.

Admittance to the Club House cannot be claimed after one o'clock A. M.

II.

The Supper Room will be closed at midnight. No refreshments from the Table will be served except in that room.

III.

Members will not be admitted inside the Bar at any time.

IV.

The Bar will be closed at one o'clock A. M., except on Sundays, when it will be closed at midnight.

V.

No game of billiards shall be commenced after twelve P. M. on Saturday nights, nor after one A. M. on other nights.

VI.

The lights throughout the house shall be extinguished at two A. M.