Trustees Records, Vol. 4, 1865 (page 221)

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Sect 3. The officers of the said corporation shall consist of twelve
Trustees, a Treasurer, Secretary and such other
officers as the Trustees may direct. The twelve persons who now
constitute the Board of Trustees shall be divided by lot, or
otherwise, as they themselves may determine, into six classes of
two each; and the persons of the first class shall go out of office
on the day of the next annual meeting, or at an adjournment
of the same: and the persons of the second, third, fourth, fifth,
and sixth classes shall go out of office, respectively, at each
succeeding annual election in the years eighteen hundred
seventy-one, eighteen hundred seventy-two, eighteen hundred
seventy-three, eighteen hundred seventy-four, and eighteen
hundred seventy five: and the two trustees who shall be
chosen at the annual meeting in eighteen hundred seventy,
and in each succeeding year, shall continue in office,
respectively, for the term of six years. In case of the death
or resignation of any trustee, the vacancy shall be filled
by the Proprietors at the next annual meeting succeeding
such death or resignation. Nothing contained herein
shall prevent any person whose term of office shall have expired
from being re=eligible.

Sect 4. The Secretary shall give notice of annual and
special meeting of said Corporation by sending by
mail or otherwise, to each member of the corporation whose place
of residence or business shall be known to him, a printed notice
thereof, seven days before the time of such meeting, or by public-
cation of such notice in one or more newspapers printed in
Boston, seven days before the time of such meeting - either
or both, as the Trustees may direct. At all meetings a