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Article 2. Unless otherwise ordered, all Committees which are 

 not elected by ballot shall be appointed by the presiding officer. 



Article 3. Any deed or writing to which the Corporate Seal is to 

 be affixed, except leases of real estate, shall be executed in the name of 

 the Academy by the President or, in the event of his death, absence, or 

 inability, by one of the Vice-Presidents, when thereto duly authorized. 



See Chap. ii. art. 7; chap. iv. art. 1, 3; chap. vi. art. 2; chap. vii. 

 art. 1; chap. ix. art. 6; chap. x. art. 1, 2; chap. xi. art. 1. 



CHAPTER VI 



The Secretaries 



Article 1. The Corresponding Secretary shall conduct the corre- 

 spondence of the Academy and of the Council, recording or making an 

 entry of all letters written in its name, and preserving for the files all 

 official papers which may be received. At each meeting of the Council 

 he shall present the communications addressed to the Academy which 

 have been received since the previous meeting, and at the next meeting 

 of the Academ}^ he shall present such as the Council may determine. 



He shall notify all persons who may be elected Fellows or Foreign 

 Honorary Members, or Resident Associates, send to each a copy of the 

 Statutes, and on their acceptance issue the proper Diploma. He shall 

 also notify all meetings of the Council; and in case of the death, 

 absence, or inability of the Recording Secretary he shall notify all 

 meetings of the Academy. 



Under the direction of the Council, he shall keep a List of the 

 Fellows, Foreign Honorary Members, and Resident Associates, ar- 

 ranged in their several Classes and Sections. It shall be printed 

 annually and issued as of the first day of July. 



See Chap. ii. art. 7; chap. iii. art. 2, 3; chap. iv. art. 1; chap. ix. art. 6; 

 chap. X. art. 1; chap. xi. art. 1. 



Article 2. The Recording Secretary shall have the custody of the 

 Charter, Corporate Seal, Archives, Statute-Book, Journals, and all 

 literary papers belonging to the Academy. 



Fellows or Resident Associates borrowing such papers or documents 

 shall receipt for them to their custodian. 



