50 Royal Colonial Institute. 



2. A Local Branch may be organised witii sucli officers, honorary or otherwise, 

 as the Council may in each case approve. The Secretary of the Local Branch will 

 generally undertake the duties of Honorary Corresponding Secretary of the Institute. 



3. A Local Branch may make regulations for the conduct and support of the 

 Branch, such regulations to be passed at a General Meeting and to be subject to the 

 approval of the Council. The regulations may provide for the collection of an 

 additional subscription towards the maintenance of the local Institute or its 

 activities. But refusal to pay such additional subscription shall not impair the 

 general status or privileges of an Associate or Fellow of the Institute, as defined in the 

 Eules and Eegulations of the Institute. 



4. A Local Branch shall be deemed to include all Fellows and Associates resident 

 within the area, excepting those (if any) who decUne to pay the extra subscription 

 (if any) on account of local privileges or activities. 



5. Once a year a general meeting of the Local Branch shall be held for the purpose 

 of electing a committee and officers for the ensuing year. 



6. Not later than February 1st in each year the Secretary of the Branch shall 

 submit to the Council a tentative programme of work to be performed in the current 

 year and an estimate of expenditure. A financial allowance may be made by the 

 Council towards such expenditure, having regard to the nature of the work to be under- 

 taken by the Branch and approved by the Council in each case, and the amount of 

 the subscription collected within the area. 



7. The Secretary of the Local Branch shall collect the subscriptions of Fellows 

 and Associates within the area, and shall remit the same to the Secretary in London 

 except in so far as he may be otherwise authorised by the approved Regulations or by 

 the Council. Should the Secretary in London receive direct any subscriptions from 

 within the area he will at once notify the Local Secretary. 



8. The Secretary of a Local Branch shall forward to the Secretary of the Institute, 

 not later than February 1st, a report on the work of the Branch for the past year 

 together with an audited statement of income and expenditure. 



9. The Council will not be responsible for the defaults, financial or otherwise, of a 

 Local Branch, or for any acts which are not consonant with the aims and regulations 

 of the Institute. 



10. The Council may, at its discretion, from time to time vary the regulations, and 

 on giving not less than six months' notice in writing, revoke the Warrant of Incorpora- 

 tion, which shall then be returned to the Secretary of the Institute together with all 

 monies standing to the credit of the Branch after all liabilities have been discharged. 



XV.— ILLUSTRATED EMPIRE LECTURES. 



During the year 1910 the Council started a movement 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 con- 

 solidation of the Empire b§^ means of illustrated lectures dealing with all parts of 

 the Overseas Dominions. The diffusion of knowledge concerning the Empire is 



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