the   twenty-sixth  annual  REPOET

above amount shall be deemed to have resigned his
membership.

(4) The number of members shall be limited to one
hundred, exclusive of ex-officio members, and new mem¬
bers shall be elected at the annual meeting in each year
to fill any vacancies then existent.

Section 2. The Mayor of the City of New York, the
Comptroller of the City of New York, the President of
the Police Department, the President of the Depart¬
ment of Charities, and the President of the following
named societies, viz., the Charity Organization Society
of the City of New York, the Association for Improving
the Condition of the Poor, the Society of St. Vincent
de Paul, and the United Hebrew Charities, shall be
ex-officio members of the Society.

Aeticle IV
Management

The business and affairs of the Society shall be man¬
aged by a board of fifteen Trustees, all of whom shall be
members of the Society. The first Board of Trustees
shall be elected by a majority of the persons named as
incorporators in the first section of the act incorporating
the Society, at the meeting held to organize the Society
on April 25, 1894. Upon their election they shall divide
themselves into three classes of five each, to hold office
respectively until the first Monday after the first Thurs¬
day of February, 1895, 1896, and 1897, and until their
successors are elected.

Five Trustees shall be elected at each annual meeting
to fill the places of the class which shall then expire,
who shall hold office for three years and until their
successors are elected. One of the said five Trustees
shall always be elected upon the nomination of the
Charity Organization Society of the City of New York,

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