XIX. Members on removing from the State, or on retiring from
practice, may, provided all their dues to the Society are paid, by
vote of the Executive Committee, be placed on the list of retired
members, and as such, shall be exempt from any assessments, and shall
not receive, except by courtesy, any of the publications of the
Society, nor be entitled to speak or vote at any of its meetings.
XX. Any person who has resigned his membership, or been placed on
the list of retired members, may, on application in writing, be
reinstated by vote of the Society at any regular meeting.
Any member removing out of the State shall have liberty to retain
his membership, on paying his annual assessment.
XXI. Any member may be expelled from the Society, or, having
resigned his membership, may be deprived of his privileges, by a vote
of two-thirds of the members present at any regular meeting, upon
charges of the following description; provided the charge or charges
against him have first been considered by the Executive Committee,
and provided he has been notified of the same by the Secretary, and
an opportunity has thereby been given him to make his defence before
the Society:--
1. For any gross and notorious immorality or infamous crime under
the laws of the land.
2. For any attempt to subvert the objects or injure the reputation
of the Society.
3. For advertising, publicly vending, or pretending to the
knowledge and use of any secret nostrum.
4. For furnishing to any person, or presenting in his own behalf,
a false certificate of character and studies as a student of
medicine, tending to deceive the public, or the Censors of the Society.
5. For habitually furnishing advice or holding professional
consultations with persons who practice medicine without the
necessary acquirements to entitle them to the respect, confidence or
courtesy of the members of the Society.
XXII. As the object of the Society is to improve the science of
medicine, to increase the influence and usefulness of its members,
and to secure greater harmony and friendship among them, therefore it
is of the highest importance that each member should so conduct
himself, both in his private and professional life, as to command the
entire respect of his colleagues.
Every person who becomes a member is understood to take upon himself
an obligation to communicate to the Society any discoveries he shall
have made relating to the science of medicine or surgery, and to co-
operate in such measures as my be adopted by the Society for the
advancement of these sciences; and, on his refusal to do so, he shall
be subject to such censure as the Society, by a two-thirds vote,
shall inflict.
XXIII. Every member of the Society shall be assessed annually three
dollars ($3), and such other assessments as a majority of the
members, at any legal meeting, may determine.