The first and second reports of the Medical Missionary Society in China : with minutes of proceedings, hospital reports, &c.

  • Medical Missionary Society in China.
Date:
1841
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Credit: The first and second reports of the Medical Missionary Society in China : with minutes of proceedings, hospital reports, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    GG B Y - I. A S. 1. The committee shall meet in the first Tuesday in January, April, July, and October, respectively, or, oftener if necessary, for the transaction of business. 2. The Recording Secretary, in concurrence with any two other members of the committee, may call special meetings. 3. Voting by proxy will be allowed in persons necessarily absent from the place of meeting, provided the proxy produce a letter of authority for specific measures, written within one month of the time of meeting. 4. Five persons shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at a general meeting; and three at a committee meeting. 5. At the meetings of the Society and of the committee, the pre- sident, or, in his absence one of the vice-presidents, following the order of priority on the list of officers, shall preside. 6. The recording secretary shall keep full and accurate minutes of all the meetings, both of the committee and of the Society—those of the former shall always be vouched by his non-signature, and those of the latter shall he signed both by him and the presiding officer. 7. The corresponding secretary shall conduct the foreign corres- pondence of the committee, except in cases that may be otherwise provided for; and he shall keep a full ^record of all his correspon- dence, for the inspection of the committee. 8. Candidates for tlic Society’s patronage must present their credentials to the president, or senior vice-president, who, with one of the vice-presidents, following the order abovenamed, and the two secretaries, shall examine, ami, if they sec fit, accept such person,— “ their proceedings, however, always being subject to the approval of the whole committee, and finally to that of the Society itself if necessary. 9; All books in the Medical Missionary Society shall be labeled, and' a catalogue of them kept by a librarian, under the direction of the committee ; and it shall be the duty of the librarian to take care of the books, and to make them accessible to all those who are in the service of the Society. 10. All articles in the museum.of the Medical Missionary Society, duly labeled, shall be placed in charge of a person, appointed by the committee for that purpo.se. 11. The occupancy of the buildings, the use of instruments, <Scc., belonging to the Society, with all disbursements of money, shall be under the control of the committee for the time bring.