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88 THE OLD COMPANIES.
CONSTITUTION.
ARTICLE 1.
We, the subscribers, members of
Newton Engine Society No. 2, hold it as our unalienable
right to admit members into said society
and dismiss such as shall be disagreeable to us.
ARTICLE 2.
We also hold it as our right to
elect our own officers, which shall be a first,
second, and third captain, and a clerk.
The first
captain present at any meeting shall be leader
and moderator of said meeting, whose reasonable
orders we will obey, and render him that respect
which is his due.
Said officers shall always be
' chosen by ballot.
ARTICLE 3.
No person shall be admitted into
this society without a written vote from a majority
of its members.
ARTICLE T.
The society shall meet to work
the engine and transact any other business
belonging to them, on the first
Wednesday
in April, May, June, July, August, September,
October, and November, all of which meetings
shall be at sunset except the annual meeting,
which shall be at 0 o'clock, P. M.
The roll shall
be called at the times of meeting above named,
and after the engine shall be worked and returned
to its place, and if any member be absent
at either roll-call he shall be lined twenty-five
cents.
ARTICLE 5. The annual meeting of the soci-