ARTICLE I

Name

1. This Club shall be called The Tuxedo Club, and is established for the protection, increase and capture of all kinds of game and fish, and for the promotion of social intercourse among its members.

ARTICLE II

Government

1. The Government and management of the Club is to be entrusted to a committee of twenty of its members, to be known as the Governing Committee.

2. All the concerns of the Club shall be managed by this Committee of twenty, who are the original organizers of the Club.

3. All vacancies occurring in the Governing Committee, shall be filled by the remaining members thereof; but it shall be in the power of a meeting of the members of the Club, to be held according to the rules respecting general or special meetings, upon notice for that purpose stated in the call for the meeting, to remove, by a vote of two-thirds of all the members of the Club, present in person, any or all of the members of the Governing Committee, and elect a new committee in their stead.

ARTICLE III

Powers of the Governing Committee

1. The Governing Committee is authorized to elect from its members, as officers of the Club, a President, Vice-President, Treasurer and Secretary, and an Executive Committee, consisting of five persons, to hold office for one year, or until their successors are elected.

2. To define the duties of such officers, and of the Executive Committee.

3. To remove such officers, or any of them, and the committee of members thereof, by a majority vote of the whole Committee, and fill the vacancies among such officers.

4. To make, alter or amend, from time to time, the Rules, by a majority vote of the whole Committee, in accordance with powers herein given, or on matters not herein provided for.

5. To cause to be prepared annually, a detailed statement of the financial condition of the Club, showing its receipts and expenditures for the year current; the number of members, and other matters of general interest to the Club; and a statement thereof shall be printed, and a copy forwarded to each member. The Fiscal year shall terminate on the last day of April in Each year.

6. To admit members, and to expel or suspend them by ballot; one adverse ballot in seven excluding, and a two-third vote expelling or suspending.

7. To prescribe rules for the admission of strangers and for the use of the Club by the Members.

8. To fix and remit penalties.

9. To make rules for their own government.

10. To call special meetings of the Club.

11. To lease or purchase lands, rights and a Club house convenient and suitable for the purposes and use of the Club, and

12. To interpret this Constitution.

ARTICLE IV

Meetings

1. There shall be an annual meeting at the Club House, on the first Saturday in June of each year, at 8:30 P.M., and if no quorum be present, the presiding officer shall adjourn the meeting to any other day, with the same effect as if held as above.

2. Twenty-five members shall constitute a quorum of the Club.

3. Upon the written request of twenty-five members, the President shall call a special meeting to consider a specific subject.

4. The President, and in his absence, the Vice-President, shall preside at all the meetings of the Club, and of the Governing Committee. In the event of their absence, a meeting of the Club or of the Governing Committee may elect its presiding officer.

5. The President, or any sub-committee, may call a special meeting of the Governing Committee, and five members shall constitute a quorum at any general or special meeting.

ARTICLE V

Members.

1. Any person of the age of twenty-one years and upwards may become a member of the Club, upon election by the Governing Committee, and payment of the initiation fee and dues as hereinafter provided.

2. The initiation fee shall be two hundred dollars. Any member, having resigned, may again become a member of the Club, upon election by the Governing Committee without paying any initiation fee.

3. The annual dues shall be one hundred dollars, payable on the 15th day of May in each year. Absent members shall pay reduced dues, or be exempt from payment of dues as hereinafter provided. A member, elected between the 15th day of May and the 15th day of August in any year, shall, on election, pay full annual dues; if elected at any time between the 15th day of August in any one year and the 15th day of May in the succeeding year, he shall pay ten dollars per month for each month and fraction thereof, from the day of his election to the 15th day of May then next ensuing.

4. Any member who, having paid annual dues for at least one year, is (A.) absent from the United States for not less than twelve months; or (B.) resides permanently more than one hundred and fifty miles from the New York City Hall, shall be deemed an absent member.

A member who is absent from the United States shall, during his absence, be exempt from the payment of all annual dues, provided such absence extends over a continuous period of at least twelve months; but a member may be provisionally placed on the absent list upon declaring his intentions in this regard.

A member who resides more than one hundred and fifty miles from the New York City Hall shall only be liable to pay annual dues of fifty dollars.

Any member desiring to avail himself of the privileges of this section must make application in writing to the Treasurer, stating the facts upon which he based his claim. No dues will be refunded to any member making such application. Absent members shall not be counted in the limitation of the number of non-resident members.

Whenever any absent member returns to the United States, or takes up his residence permanently within one hundred and fifty miles of the New York City Hall, he shall pay a proportionate part of the proper annual dues for the period from the day of such return or change of residence, to the 15th day of May next ensuing; such proportionate part to be calculated in the manner above provided in respect to the annual dues of members newly elected. In case the return or change of residence of absent members shall increase the number of non-resident members above the limit prescribed, no new non-resident members shall be chosen until the number shall be reduced by resignation or otherwise below such limit.

5. The membership shall be limited to 400 non-resident members, and so many other persons as may be seized in fee simple of real estate within the limits of the land controlled by the Club, and who shall have been duly elected to membership, as herein provided. And any non-resident member shall become a resident member on the purchase in fee of any land controlled by the Club of the value of 500 dollars, and upon his agreement to build thereon within one year a house not to cost less than one thousand dollars.

6. For a consideration, the privileges of the Club may be extended by the Governing Committee to any lessee of property held in the Park.

ARTICLE VI

Executive Committee

1. The Executive Committee, subject to the Governing Committee, shall have full charge and control of the affairs of the Club, and of all sub-committees, and all matters appertaining to the internal regulations, care, order and protection of the Club and Club House, and the articles and things therein; and also of the barns, kennels, out-houses and contents, and the grounds, ponds, and waters of the Club, and the boat-houses and boats. They shall make all needful and proper rules for the regulations of the same. They alone shall have the right to contract any debt or involve the Club in any pecuniary responsibility; but the aggregate of any indebtedness to be created or incurred by the Committee shall not in any year exceed the sum of twenty thousand dollars beyond the annual income of the Club, unless authorized by a vote of the majority of all the members present at a general or special meeting of the Governing Committee of the Club, due notice of which shall be given to each member. They shall audit all bills, make all purchases, and fix a tariff of prices for board, wines, liquors and segars, and for care and keep of all animals; and the same from time to time may change and alter as seems fit, and shall make a full report of their proceedings at each regular meeting of the Governing Committee, or at any other meeting of the Governing Committee, at which they shall be required so to do.

2. Members of all sub-committees shall be appointed by the President. And the president shall be ex-officio member of all committees, and all sub-committees shall exercise their particular authority, subject to the Executive Committee and the Governing Committee.

ARTICLE VII

Expulsion or suspension of Members

1. Any member violating this Constitution, or any of the By-Laws or Rules of the Club, or in any manner acting to the prejudice of the interests and convenience of the members of the Club, shall be liable to be expelled or suspended by the Governing Committee, at any meeting, general or special, of that body. Charges of such acts must be preferred in writing by the member of the Club cognizant of or aggrieved by them.

2. And such offending member shall be personally cited to appear before the Committee at least ten days before the hearing of his case.

ARTICLE VIII.

Sporting Regulations

1. The Executive Committee or their representatives shall have full authority to make all necessary regulations relating to game and fish and the enjoyment of the same by members or guests of the Club.

2. The President and Vice-President shall be ex-officio trustees of all the property of the Club.

ARTICLE IX

1. To amend this Constitution, the proposed amendment shall,

1st. Be subscribed by at least twenty-five members of the Club, and presented to the
President, who shall

2d. Cause the amendment, with its signatures, to be posted for thirty days in the Club House, and

3d. Present the same to the Club at the next meeting thereafter.

2. Simultaneously with the posting of the notice as above, a copy of it shall be sent by the Secretary to each member.

3. A two-thirds vote of the members present at the meeting of the Club in person, or represented by proxy, shall be sufficient to confirm such proposed amendment.

4. Any Rules of the Governing Committee may be altered or amended by a majority vote of such Committee.