APPENDIX-By-Laws. JUDICIAL COUNCIL. A Council, consisting of twelve members, shall be appointed by the Nominating Committee, whose duty it shall be to take cognizance of, and decide, all questions of an ethical or judicial character that may arise in connection with the Association. Of the twelve members of the Council first appointed, the four first named on the list shall hold office for one year, the second four named shall hold office two years, and the third four named shall hold office three years; so that four new members shall be appointed each year, who shall hold office three years. The said Council shall organize by choosing a President and Secretary, and shall keep a permanent record of its proceedings. The decisions of said Council, on all matters referred to it by the Asociation, shall be final, and shall be reported to the Association at the earliest practicable moment. All questions of a personal character, including complaints and protests, and all questions or credentials, shall be referred at once, after the report of the Commitee of Arrangements or other presentation, to the Judicial Council, and without discussion. SECTIONS. The general meeting of the Association shall be restricted to the morning sessions; and the afternoon sessions, commencing at three o'clock, shall be devoted to the hearing of reports and papers and their consideration, in the following sections: Ist-Practice of Medicine, Materia Medica, and Physi ology. 2nd- Obstetrics, and Diseases of Children. 3rd-Surgery and Anatomy. 4th-Medical Jurisprudence, Chemistry and Psychol ogy. 5th-State Medicine and Public Hygiene. APPENDIX-By-Laws. 6th-Gynecology. 7th-Ophthalmology and Otology. The Chairman and Secretary of the several sections shall, like other officers of the Association, be nominated by the nominating committee of one member from each county represented at the meeting, and elected by a vote on a general ticket. They shall hold their office until the close of the proper business of the annual meeting next succeeding their election, and until their successors are appointed. The Section on State Medicine and Public Hygiene shall be composed of one member from each county, representing, as far as practicable, the County Board of Health. The officers of this section to be also designated by the Committee of Nomination. The Chairman of the several sections shall prepare and read, in the general sessions of the Association, papers on the advances and discoveries of the past year in the branch of science included in their respective sections; the reading of such papers not to occupy longer than forty minutes for each. Papers appropriate to the several sections, in order to secure consideration and action, must be sent to the Secretary of the appropriate section at least one month. before the meeting which is to act upon them. It shall be the duty of the Secretary to whom such papers are sent to examine them with care, and, with the advice of the Chairman of his section, to determine the time and order of their presentation, and to give due notice of the same; and, after their full examination and discussion by the section, they shall be sent to the permanent Secretary of the Association. utes. No paper shall be read before either of the sections, the reading of which occupies more than twenty minSuch papers shall be referred by the section to sub-committees especially appointed for their examination. The sub-committees shall be allowed thirty days for such examination; at the end of which time they APPENDIX-By-Laws. shall forward the papers to the Committee of Publication, with such recommendations as they may deem proper. The authors of such papers, however, may read abstracts before the section within the allotted twenty minutes. No member shall address the section more than once upon the same subject, nor speak longer than fifteen minutes without unanimous consent. All papers presented directly to the Association, and other matters, may, at the discretion of the Association, be referred to the various sections for their consideration and report. STANDING COMMITTEES. The following are the standing committees of the Association, to be filled by the Committee on Nominations, and to report at the next annual meeting subsequent to their appointment, viz.: Committee of Arrangements, Committee of Publication, Committee on Prize Essays, and Committee on Texas State Medical Necrology. The Committee of Publication shall append to each volume of the TRANSACTIONS hereafter published a copy of the Constitution, By-Laws, Code of Ethics of the Association, and a complete list of all members in full fellowship, and their respective places of abode. It shall print conspicuously at the beginning of each volume of the TRANSACTIONS the following disclaimer, viz: "The Texas State Medical Association, although formally accepting and publishing the reports of the various standing committees, holds itself wholly irresponsible for the opinions, theories, or criticisms therein contained, except when otherwise decided by special resolution." The Committee on Prize Essays shall consist of five members, residing in the same neighborhood, whose duty it shall be, in the interval between the present and next succeeding annual sessions, to receive original papers on any medical subject, from any person who may choose to send them; to decide upon the merits of these papers, and to select for presentation to the Asso APPENDIX-By-Laws. ciation, at its next session, such as they may deem. worthy of being thus presented. The committee shall have power to form such regulations, as to the mode in which the papers are to be presented, and as to the observing of secrecy, as they may think proper; and also to award one prize of one hundred dollars to the best original communication reported on favorably by them, and directed by the Association to be published. The Committee on Texas State Medical Necrology shall consist of one member for each county represented in the Association, whose duty it shall be to procure memorials of the eminent and worthy dead among the distinguished physicians of their respective counties, and transmit them to the Chairman of this committee, on or before the first of April of each and every year. THE PUBLICATION OF PAPERS AND REPORTS. No paper or report shall be entitled to publication in the volume, for the year in which it shall be presented to the Association, unless it be placed in the hands of the Committee of Publication on or before the first day of July. It must also be so prepared as to require no material alteration or addition at the hands of its author. Authors of papers are required to return their proofs within two weeks after reception; otherwise they will be passed over and omitted from the volume. The Committee of Publication shall have full discretionary power to omit from the published TRANSACTIONS, in part or in whole, any paper that may be referred to it by the Association or either of the sections, unless specially instructed to the contrary by vote of the Association. ORDINANCES. Resolved, That the several sections of this Association be requested, in the future, to refer no papers or APPENDIX-By-Laws. reports to the Committee of Publication, except such as can be fairly classed under one of the three following heads, viz: 1. Such as may contain and establish positively new facts, modes of practice, or principles of real value. 2. Such as may contain the results of well-devised original experimental researches. 3. Such as present so complete a review of the facts on any particular subject as to enable the writer to deduce therefrom legitimate conclusions of importance. Resolved, That the several sections be requested, in the future, to refer all such papers as may be presented to them for examination by this Association, that contain matter of more or less value, yet cannot be fairly ranked under either of the heads mentioned in the foregoing resolution, back to their authors, with the recommendation that they be published in such regular medical periodicals as said author may select, with the privilege of placing at the head of such papers: papers: "Read Section of the Texas State Medical As -, 188-." to the sociation on the day of Resolved, That at the future meetings of the Texas State Medical Association, no report of standing committees, or communications, shall be read before the Association which exceeds twenty pages of letter paper. (Vide Trans., Seventh An. Ses., p. 33.) Resolved, That in the opinion of this Association, towns, cities, and corporations should not rely upon quarantine alone, as preventive of yellow fever, since, in these days of rapid inter-communication, absolute quarantine is impracticable. We therefore recommend the strictest hygienic measures-complete drainage, removal of all putrescent accumulations, animal or vegetable-as promising the best means of protection. (Vide Trans., Seventh An. Ses., p. 32.) Resolved, That we, as an Association and members of the medical profession, have not arrayed ourselves in opposition to the Press. We recognize in it a power second to no other, when properly exerted, to effect much good; yet we feel that the placarding and adver |