Section 5. The Finance Committee shall have supervision of investing the 

 endowment and other funds of the Corporation, and the care of such real estate 

 as may become its property. It shall have authority to make and alter investments 

 from time to time, reporting its actions to the Board of Trustees. The Finance 

 Committee is fully authorized to cause any funds or investments of the Corpora- 

 tion to be made payable to bearer, and it is further authorized to cause real estate 

 of the Corporation, its funds and investments, to be held or registered in the name 

 of a nominee selected by it. 



Section 6. The Building Committee shall have supervision of the con- 

 struction, reconstruction, and extension of any and all buildings used for Museum 

 purposes. 



Section 7. The Executive Committee shall be called together from time 

 to time as the Chairman may consider necessary, or as he may be requested to 

 do by three members of the Committee, to act upon such matters affecting the 

 administration of the Museum as cannot await consideration at the Regular 

 Monthly Meetings of the Board of Trustees. It shall, before the beginning of 

 each fiscal year, prepare and submit to the Board an itemized Budget, setting 

 forth the probable receipts from all sources for the ensuing year, and make recom- 

 mendations as to the expenditures which should be made for routine maintenance 

 and fixed charges. Upon the adoption of the Budget by the Board, the expendi- 

 tures stated are authorized. 



Section 8. The Auditing Committee shall have supervision over all account- 

 ing and bookkeeping, and full control of the financial records. It shall cause 

 the same, once each year, or oftener, to be examined by an expert individual or 

 firm, and shall transmit the report of such expert individual or firm to the Board 

 at the next ensuing regular meeting after such examination shall have taken place. 



Section 9. The Pension Committee shall determine by such means and 

 processes as shall be established by the Board of Trustees to whom and in what 

 amount the Pension Fund shall be distributed. These determinations or findings 

 shall be subject to the approval of the Board of Trustees. 



Section 10. The Chairman of each Committee shall report the acts and 

 proceedings thereof at the next ensuing regular meeting of the Board. 



Section 11. The President shall be ex-ofRcio a member of all Committees 

 and Chairman of the Executive Committee. Vacancies occurring in any Com- 

 mittee may be filled by ballot at any regular meeting of the Board. 



ARTICLE IX 



nominating committee 



Section 1. At the November meeting of the Board each year, a Nomi- 

 nating Committee of three shall be chosen by lot. Said Committee shall make 

 nominations for membership of the Finance Committee, the Building Committee, 

 the Auditing Committee, and the Pension Committee, and for three members 

 of the Executive Committee, from among the Trustees, to be submitted at the 

 ensuing December meeting and voted upon at the following Annual Meeting 

 in January. 



ARTICLE X 



Section 1. Whenever the word "Museum" is employed in the By-Laws of 

 the Corporation, it shall be taken to mean the building in which the Museum 

 as an Institution is located and operated, the material exhibited, the material in 

 study collections, or in storage, furniture, fixtures, cases, tools, records, books, 

 and all appurtenances of the Institution and the workings, researches, installa- 

 tions, expenditures, field work, laboratories, library, publications, lecture courses, 

 and all scientific and maintenance activities. 



Section 2. The By-Laws, and likewise the Articles of Incorporation, may 

 be amended at any regular meeting of the Board of Trustees by a vote in favor 

 thereof of not less than two-thirds of all the members present, provided the 

 amendment shall have been proposed at a preceding regular meeting. 



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