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and be sued, and shall have power and authority to take, purchase, and 

 hold lands for the purposes hereinafter mentioned. 



7. (1.) The Board of Governors shall have power to appoint a fit 

 person, to be known as the " President," to superintend and carry out all 

 necessary work in connection with the affairs of the Institute, and to pro- 

 vide him with such further assistance as may be required. 



(2.) It shall also appoint the President or some other fit person to 

 be editor of the Transactions of the Institute, and may appoint a com- 

 mittee to assist him in the work of editing the same. 



(3.) It shall have power to make regulations under which societies 

 may become incorporated to the Institute, and to declare that any 

 incorporated society shall cease to be incorporated if such regulations 

 are not complied with, and such regulations on being published in the 

 Gazette shall have the force of law. 



(4.) The Board may receive any grants, bequests, or gifts of books or 

 specimens of any kind whatsoever for the use of the Institute, and dispose 

 of them as it thinks fit. 



(5.) The Board shall have control of the property hereinafter vested 

 in it, and of any additions hereafter made thereto, and shall make regu- 

 lations for the management of the same, for the encouragement of 

 research by the members of the Institute, and in all matters, specified or 

 unspecified, shall have power to act for and on behalf of the Institute. 



8. Any casual vacancy on the Board of Governors, howsoever caused, 

 shall be filled within three months by the society or authority that 

 appointed the member whose place has become vacant, and if not filled 

 within that time the vacancy shall be filled by the Board of Governors. 



9. (1.) The first annual meeting of the Board of Governors herein- 

 before constituted shall be held at Wellington on some day in the month 

 of January, one thousand nine hundred and four, to be fixed by the 

 Governor, and annual meetings of the Board shall be regularly held 

 thereafter during the month of January in each year, the date and place 

 of such annual meeting to be fixed at the previous annual meeting. 



(2.) The Board of Governors may meet during the year at such other 

 times and places as it deems necessary. 



(3.) At each annual meeting the President shall present to the meeting 

 a report /Df the work of the Institute for the year preceding, and a balance- 

 sheet, duly audited, of all sums received and paid on behalf of the 

 Institute. 



10. The Board of Governors may from time to time, as it sees fit, 

 make arrangements for the holding of general meetings of members of 

 the Institute, at times and places to be arranged, for the reading of 

 scientific papers, the delivery of lectures, and for the general promotion 

 of science in the colony by any means that may appear desirable. 



11. The Colonial Treasurer shall, without further appropriation than 

 this Act, pa}' to the Board of Governors the annual sum of five hundred 

 pounds, to be applied in or towards payment of the general current 

 expenses of the Institute. 



12. (1.) On the appointment of the first Board of Governors under 

 this Act the Board of Governors constituted under the Act hereby 

 repealed shall cease to exist, and the property then vested in, or belong- 

 ing to, or under the control of that Board shall be vested in His Majesty 

 for the use and benefit of the public. 



(2.) On the recommendation of the President of the Institute the 

 Governor may at any time hereinafter, by Order in Council, declare that 



