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writer is a member of the university or school — as the case may be — and, as to a 

 university, has not been a member of such university for more than three yeari ; 

 and in the case of a school, does not exceed the age of nineteen years on the latest 

 date fixed for the delivery of the essay at the Institute. 



12. Successful competitors to furnish any further proofs of compliance with the 

 terms of the competition that may be required by the Council. 



13. Papers illegibly written or not complying with the regulations will be rejected. 



14. The prizes to be awarded by the Council, after consideration of the report of the 

 Examiner, who will be appointed by the Council. The decision will be announced on 

 January 1, 1915. 



15. The Council reserve the right of witkholding any prize and of making such 

 supplementary regulations in respect to the competition as may from time to time 

 appear to them to be necessary. 



16. Essays sent in for competition will not be returned. 



17. The copyright of all essays sent in to be deemed to be vested in the Council. 



XIV.— LOCAL COMMITTEES AND LOCAL BRANCHES. 



In the Eegulations the word Council means the Council of the Royal Colonial Institute. 



A local Committee of the Institute may be constituted in any town or district 

 of the United Kingdom, in accordance with Regulations to be from time to time 

 framed by the Council of the Institute. 



The function of a Local Committee is to further the objects and aims for which the 

 Institute was founded by difiusing information concerning the Empire, by organising 

 lectures for all classes throughout the district, by distributing literature or by other 

 means, by arranging public meetings whenever the Council desire to focus public 

 attention on any matter, by watching the emigration' mo vement in the district with a 

 view to keeping the Emigration Committee of the Institute in touch with every develop- 

 ment, by ptomoting Empire trade, and generally by such other means as the Council 

 may direct. 



Subject to the decision of the Council that the local conditions are such as to 

 justify the enterprise, and to the Regulations for the time being in force, a Local 

 Committee may found a Local Branch of the Institute, which should have as its head- 

 quarters a suitable Building designed to afford facilities similar to those of the Institute 

 Building in London. 



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Regulations. 



I. — Local Committees. 



1. Upon receipt of a request in writing from ten local subscribers (Fellows or 

 Associates) residing in a town or district the Council may, at their discretion, issue 

 a Certificate establishing a Local Committee and defining its district. The Council 

 may, by a subsequent Certificate, vary the district so defined. 



2. The ten who have signed the request shall, on receipt of the Certificate, become 

 the Provisional Committee, with power to add to their number, and shall appoint 



