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within the area, excepting those (if any) who decline 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 hold 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 

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

 the subscription collected within that 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 consolida- 

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

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

 one of the principal objects for which the Institute was originally foimded, and has 

 been steadily and regularly carried out at the sessional meetings held 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 

 consideral^le expense, and the extent therefore to which it may be found possible to 

 develop the movement must be largely dependent upon the amoimt 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 

 theiito may be addressed to the Secretary of the Institute. 



