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Finance, Committee on the Telfair Academy, each to consist of three persons in addition to the President.

He shall appoint from the Curators a Committee on Library, to consist of five persons, who shall be the persons designated by this Society as its appointees upon the Public Board. He shall appoint the members of this Committee as follows: One of them shall serve during the year 1903, and his term shall expire on the first day of January, 1904, or when his successors shall have been appointed and shall have accepted; one for the years 1903 and 1904, one for the years 1903, 1904 and 1905, one for the years 1903, 1904, 1905 and 1906, one for the years 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906 and 1907, so that on January the first each year, in 1904, and thereafter the terms of one of the said Library Committee so appointed shall end, but they, respectively, shall hold over until their successors shall have been appointed and shall have accepted. And to fill the vacancies occasioned by the expiration of said terms the said President shall respectively appoint a successor for each of the said Managers so passing out, which successor shall hold his office on said Board for the term of five years from the first day of January in the year when his predecessor's term ends or until his successor shall have been appointed and shall have accepted.

7. The Committee on the Library, in addition to the duties named in the preceding paragraph, shall have the supervisory care of the building and grounds, furniture, printed publications, manuscripts, curiosities and all property of like kind. They shall, with the Librarian, provide suitable shelves, cases and fixtures by which to arrange and display them. The printed volumes and manuscripts shall be regularly numbered and marked with the name of the "Georgia Historical Society." They shall propose to the Curators such books or manuscripts pertaining to the object of the Society as they shall deem expedient, which, when approved, shall be by them purchased and disposed of as above directed.

They shall provide all necessary blank books for the use of said department, in which the Librarian shall keep a record of their proceedings, and be entrusted in general with the custody, care and increase of whatever comes within the province of their appointed duty.

8. The Committee on Printing and Publishing shall prepare for publication whatever documents or collections. shall be ordered by the Society; shall contract for and supervise the printing of the same, and shall furnish the Recording Secretary and the Librarian with such blank notices, summonses, labels, etc., as may be deemed requisite.

9. The Committee on Finance shall consist of at least one member of each of the former Committees, and shall have the general oversight and direction of the funds of the Society and shall audit the Treasurer's annual report.

10. The Committee on the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences shall have the general oversight of the lot and improvements, books, pictures, statuary, furniture and fixtures, devised and bequeathed by the late Miss Mary Telfair to the Georgia Historical Society in special trust, and of all additions that may be made thereto, in accordance with her will. They shall bring, from time to time, to the notice of the Board such repairs of the Telfair residence and such changes and improvements of the adjacent premises as may be required to keep and preserve the same. as a public edifice for a Library and Academy of Arts and Sciences. They shall propose and submit to the board a plan for the management and care of the institution, and the terms and regulations on which it shall be open for the use of the public, and such modifications of the same as may be suggested by experience. They shall recommend to the Board the purchase of books for the Library and works of art and science for the Academy.

To the end of receiving and considering the reports of this Committee, of supervising the expenditures for the Library and the Academy and generally administering the trust fund; of devising, modifying and maturing a scheme

to carry into effect in good faith the objects of the Telfair devise and bequest, by making the Academy, through its books and collections, and if, and when practicable through instructions in art and science, an institution of the largest public usefulness, the Board shall hold its meetings in the Academy building at such times as it shall appoint, provided there be one such regular monthly meeting during the week next preceding the regular meeting of the Society, and to be always prepared to report fully to such last mentioned meetings upon the state of the Academy and upon its own actings and doings, which shall be subject in all things to the revision and approval of the Society.

11. The Board shall appoint an orator to deliver a discourse at each annual meeting and suggest such other exercises as shall be appropriate to its celebration.

12. The Society may authorize any number of members, not less than five, to use the hall and library for the meetings of such subsections as may be formed, and any such subsection shall have power to place in the Library such books and other means of instruction as they may choose to procure, without cost to the Society, to be freely used by the members thereof in the rooms of the Library, the members of the section alone being allowed to take such books out of the Library, and then under the rules of the same.

13. Any member failing to pay his annual subscription before March 15th shall be warned by notice of his liability to be dropped from membership, and such notice shall allow him one month in which to pay his dues. In case of his failure to do so, the Treasurer shall report his name at the next meeting of the Society and his membership shall then

cease.

14. The Board of Curators shall meet on the Fridays before the regular quarterly meetings and annual meetings of the Society. Special meetings may be called by the President, or, in his absence, by any Vice-President, or by any three Curators. Five members of the Board shall con

stitute a quorum. The several standing committees shall make formal reports to the quarterly meetings of the Board of Curators, which reports shall also be read at the next regular meeting of the Society.

15. All motions, resolutions and other matters, directly or indirectly affecting or referring to the management of the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences shall, as a matter of course be referred to the Board of Curators, to be by it reported on at the next ensuing regular meeting, unless further time be allowed,

16. These By-laws may be repealed, amended or added to at any regular meeting, or by one publication in a daily paper published in Savannah not less than one week prior to the meeting. They may likewise be repealed, amended or added to by the Board of Curators at any time in their discretion, but such amendments shall be ineffective if disapproved by the Society.

Annual Meeting

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Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Celebration

At the meeting of the Society in November, 1913, a committee, previously appointed to report upon the advisability of celebrating the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Society, recommended that such a celebration be held on February 12, 1914. The recommendation was adopted, and a committee composed of W. J. DeRenne, Samuel B. Adams, J. Randolph Anderson, Otis Ashmore, G. Arthur Gordon, B. H. Levy, J. F. Minis, and W. W. Williamson, was appointed to formulate and carry out such plans as it deemed best for making the celebration a success. The program adopted and carried out was briefly as follows:

On the morning of February 12th, the members of the Society and its guests were entertained at Wormsloe by Mr. W. J. DeRenne. The day was an ideal one, and the visit to the Georgia Library and the Old Fort, together with the charming hospitality of the host made the occasion one long to be remembered.

At four o'clock in the afternoon the annual address was delivered at the Lawton Memorial by Dr. J. Franklin Jameson, head of the department of historical research in the Carnegie Institution at Washington, D. C.

In the evening the Society and its guests enjoyed a banquet at the DeSoto hotel. The number who attended this banquet was 164 of whom 48 were ladies. Four addresses were delivered upon this occasion as follows: History: by Hon. Walter G. Charlton. The Thirteen Original States: by Rev. M. Ashby Jones, of Augusta. South Carolina and Georgia: by Hon. Joseph W. Barnwell,

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