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work of tlie Brancli for the preceding year, together with an audited statement showing 

 all details of the income and expenditure of the Branch. 



7. The Secretary of a Branch shaU collect the subscriptions of the Members of such 

 Branch and shall remit all amounts so collected to the Secretary of the Institution 

 annually with the above Audited Statement, less a sum not exceeding 25 per cent, 

 on the subscriptions collected, which shall be retained for the purpose of local expendi- 

 ture. The sum of 5s. will be paid annually to the Local Branch on account of each 

 Fellow or Associate resident within the area of the Branch. 



8. The Council may, at its discretion, revoke a Certificate creating a Branch, in 

 which case the Certificate shall forthwith be returned to the Secretary of the Institute 

 together with all monies standing to the credit of the Branch after all liabilities have 

 been paid. The Council shall, however, give six months' notice of intention to revoke 

 the Certificate creating the Branch. 



9. The Council shall be in no way responsible for the acts or defaults of a Branch 

 or a Local Committee or the Ofiicers of a Branch. 



XII.— EMPIRE LECTURES COMMITTEE. 



Sir Godfrey Lagden, K.C.M.G., Chairman ; Lieut.-Gen. Sir J. Bevan Edwards, 

 K.C.M.G., C.B., Lieut.-Gen. Sir Edward T. H. Hutton, K.C.M.G., C.B., Sir 

 Charles P. Lucas, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., Sir Harry Wilson, K.C.M.G., Ealph S. 

 Bond, Esq., L. S. Amery, Esq., M.P., Eichard Jebb, Esq., Fred Button, Esq., 

 A. R. Colquhoun, Esq. 



This committee was formed during the year 1910 for the purpose of inculcating 

 the principles governing the Institute, and spreading throughout the United Kingdom 

 detailed knowledge as to the present resources and future development and consolida- 

 tion of the Empire by means of illustrated lectures dealing with all parts of the 

 Overseas Empire. The difiusion of knowledge concerning the Empire is one of the 

 principal objects for which the Institute was originally founded, and has been steadily 

 and regularly carried out at the sessional meetings of the Institute in London by 

 the Papers which are then read and the discussions which take place thereon. But 

 the opportunities for attending these meetings to those who live outside London and its 

 immediate neighbourhood are naturally restricted, and it is for that reason that steps 

 have been taken to further this particular branch of the Institute's work throughout 

 the country.. 



To maintain a regular scheme of lectures on a large scale necessarily involves 

 considerable expense, and the extent therefore to which it may be found possible to 

 develop the movement must be largely dependent upon the amount of funds which are 

 from time to time available for the purpose. With this object in view, a special fund, 

 known as the " Empire Lectures Fund," has been established, and subscriptions thereto 

 may be addressed to the Secretary of the Institute. Mr. W. H. Garrison, who has 

 been appointed Official Lecturer to the Institute, has travelled extensively throughout 

 the British Empire, and has therefore a personal knowledge of its various parts. It 

 is hoped that the movement may be so extended in the near future that it may become 



