PLAN OF ORGANIZATION.' REGULATIONS. I. TITLE OF THE ASSOCIATION. THIS institution shall be known and distinguished by the name and title of "THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION." II. MEMBERS. The members of this institution shall collectively represent and have cognizance of the common interests of the medical profession in every part of the United States; and shall hold their appointment to membership either as delegates from local institutions, as members by invitation, or as permanent members. The Delegates shall receive the appointment from permanently organized medical societies, medical colleges, hospitals, lunatic asylums, and other permanently organized medical institutions of good standing in the United States, and from the American Medical Society of Paris. Each delegate shall hold his appointment for one year, and until another is appointed to succeed him, and shall participate in all the business and affairs of the Association. Each local society shall have the privilege of sending to the Association one delegate for every ten of its regular resident members, and one for every additional fraction of more than half of this number. The faculty of every regular constituted medical ' In accordance with the following resolution, passed at the session in Washington, the Committee of Publication have introduced into the Plan of Organization all the resolutions adopted at the various meetings for the government of the Association. Those for which there was no appropriate place have been appended. Resolved, That the Committee on Publication be instructed to collect all the by-laws and resolutions which have not been rescinded through the different volumes of the Transactions; to arrange them under their respective heads, and append the same to the Constitution. (See page 50.) college, or chartered school of medicine, shall have the privilege of sending two delegates. The professional staff of every chartered or municipal hospital containing a hundred inmates or more, shall have the privilege of sending two delegates; and every other permanently organized medical institution of good standing shall have the privilege of sending one delegate. The sum of three dollars shall be assessed, annually, upon each of the delegates to the sessions of the Association, as well as upon each of its permanent members, for the purpose of raising a fund to defray the expenses of printing the Transactions. The payment of this assessment shall be required of the delegates and members in attendance upon the sessions of the Association, previously to their taking their seats and participating in the business of the session; and of all others on or before the first of September in each year. Each delegate and member who has paid his annual assessment, in accordance with the terms of the above resolution, shall be entitled to receive a copy of the printed Transactions of the session. No individual who shall be under sentence of expulsion or suspension from any State or Local Medical Society, of which he may have been a member, shall be received as a delegate to this body, or be allowed any of the privileges of a member, until he shall have been relieved from the said sentence by such State or Local Society. No one expelled from this Association shall at any time thereafter be received as a delegate or member, unless by a three-fourths vote of the members present at the meeting to which he is sent, or at which he is proposed. No State or local society shall be entitled to representation in this Association, that has not adopted its Code of Ethics. No State or local society that has intentionally violated or disregarded any article or clause in the Code of Ethics, shall any longer be entitled to representation in this body. No organization or institution, entitled to representation in this Association, shall be considered in good standing, which has not adopted its Code of Ethics. Delegates representing the medical staffs of the United States Army and Navy, shall be appointed by the Chiefs of the Army and Navy Medical Bureaux. The number of delegates so appointed shall be four from the army medical officers, and an equal number from the navy medical officers. |