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2. Any Society incorporated as aforesaid shall cease to be incorporated 

 with the Institute in case the number of the members of the said Society 

 shall at any time become less than twenty-five, or the amount of money 

 annually subscribed by such members shall at any time be less than £50. 



3. The by-laws of every Society to be incorporated as aforesaid shall 

 provide for the expenditure of not less than one-third of the annual revenue 

 in or towards the formation or support of some local public Museum or 

 Library ; or otherwise shall provide for the contribution of not less than 

 one-sixth of its said revenue towards the extension and maintenance of the 

 Museum and Library of the New Zealand Institute. 



4. Any Society incorporated as aforesaid, which shall in any one year 

 fail to expend the proportion of revenue affixed in manner provided by 

 Bule 3 aforesaid, shall from thenceforth cease to be incorporated with the 

 Institute. 



5. All papers read before any Society for the time being incorporated 

 with the Institute shall be deemed to be communications to the Institute, 

 and may then be published as Proceedings or Transactions of the Institute, 

 subject to the following regulations of the Board of the Institute regarding 

 publications : — 



Regulations regarding Publications. 



(a.) The publications of the Institute shall consist of a current abstract 

 of the proceedings of the Societies for the time being incorporated 

 with the Institute, to be intituled, " Proceedings of the New Zealand 

 Institute," and of transactions, comprising papers read before the 

 Incorporated Societies (subject, however, to selection as hereinafter 

 mentioned), to be intituled, "Transactions of the New Zealand 

 Institute." 



(b.) The Institute shall have power to reject any papers read before any 

 of the Incorporated Societies. 



(c.) Papers so rejected will be returned to the Society in which they 

 were read. 



(d.) A proportional contribution may be required from each Society 

 towards the cost of publishing the Proceedings and Transactions of 

 the Institute. 



(e.) Each Incorporated Society will be entitled to receive a proportional 

 number of copies of the Proceedings and Transactions of the 

 Institute, to be from time to time fixed by the Board of Governors. 



(/.) Extra copies will be issued to any of the members of Incorporated 

 Societies at the cost price of publication. 



6. All property accumulated by or with funds derived from Incorporated 

 Societies and placed in the charge of the Institute, shall be vested in the 

 Institute, and be used and applied at the discretion of the Board of Governors 

 for public advantage, in like manner with any other of the property of the 

 Institute. 



7. Subject to " The New Zealand Institute Act, 1867," and to the fore- 

 going rules, all Societies incorporated with the Institute shall be entitled to 

 retain or alter their own form of constitution and the by-laws for their own 

 management, and shall conduct their own affairs. 



8. Upon application signed by the Chairman and countersigned by the 

 Secretary of any Society, accompanied by the certificate required under Bule 

 No. 1, a certificate of incorporation will be granted under the Seal of the 

 Institute, and will remain in force as long as the foregoing rules of the 

 Institute are complied with by the Society. 



Section II. 

 For the Management of tlie Property of the Institute. 



9. All donations by Societies, Public Departments, or Private Indivi- 

 duals to the Museum of the Institute, shall be acknowledged by a printed 

 form of receipt, and shall be duly entered in the books of the Institute 



