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the word ''Kesident Member" shall be imder.stood to include also said 

 delegates, iiiiless otherwise expressly stated. 



ARTICLE IV: Officers. 



1. The officers of the Academy shall consist of a President, a Vice 

 President of each section that may be organized, a Secretary and a 

 Treasurer. 



These officers and all j>ast presidents shall constitute an Executive 

 Committee, which shall be called the Council. 



2. The President shall discharge the usual duties of a presiding officer 

 at all meetings of the Academy, and of the Council. He shall take cog- 

 nizance of the acts of the Academy and of its officers, delegates of affili- 

 ated societies, containing a sufficient number of members of the Acad- 

 emy, as pro\ided in Article III, and cause the ]>rovisions of the consti- 

 tution and By-Laws to be faithfully carried into effect. He shall also 

 give an address to the Academy at the closing meeting of the year for 

 which he is elected. 



3. The duties of the President in case of his absence or disability 

 shall be assumed by one of the Vice Presidents who shall be designated 

 by the Council. 



The Vice Presidents shall be chairmen of their respective sections. 

 They shall encourage and direct research in the special branches of 

 science included within the Sections over which they preside. 



4. The Secretary shall keep the records of the proceedings of the 

 Academy and a complete list of the members, with the dates of their elec- 

 tion and disconnection with the Academy. He shall also be the Secre- 

 tary of the Council. 



The Secretary shall co-operate with the President in attending to the 

 ordinary affairs of the Society. He shall attend to the preparations, 

 printing and mailing of circulars, blanks and notifications of elections 

 and meetings. He shall superintend other printing ordered by the 

 Academy, or by the President, and shall have charge of its distribution 

 under the direction of the Council. 



The Secretary, unless other provision be made, shall also act as Editor 

 of the publications of the Academy and as Librarian and Custodian of 

 property, 



5. The Treasurer shall have the custody of all funds of the Academy. 

 He shall keep an account of receipts and disbursements in detail, and 

 this account shall be audited as hereinafter provided. 



6. The Academy may elect an Editor to supervise all matters con- 

 nected with the publication of the transactions of the Academy, under 

 the direction of the Council, and to perform the duties of Librarian 

 until such time as the Academy shall make that an independent office. 



7. The Council is clothed with executive authority, and with the leg- 

 islative ix)wers of the Academy in the intervals between the latter's 

 meetings; but no extraordinary act of the Council shall remain in force 

 beyond the next following stated meeting, without ratification by the 

 Academy. The Council shall have control of the publications of the 

 Academy, under the provisions of the By-Laws and of the resolutions 

 from time to time adopted. It shall receive nominations for members, 



