Prizes for Essays. 47 



similar motto or sign, and containing the full name and address of the writer of the 

 essay. 



9. Each essay to be accompanied by a certificate from some person holding a public 

 position, e.g., a minister of religion, professor, &c., declaring that such person has 

 satisfied himself or herself that the essay marked (quoting the mark or sign) is the 

 genuine work of the writer named in the accompanying sealed envelope ; that such 

 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 years ; 

 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. 



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

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



11. Papers illegibly written or not complying with the regixlations will be rejected. 



12. 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, 1916. 



13. The Council reserve the right of withholding 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. 



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



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



XIV.— LOCAL COMMITTEES AND LOCAL BRANCHES.* 



The following are the regulations at present in force with regard to Local Com- 

 mittees and Local Branches, but the Council may from time to time at its discretion 

 vary any surh Regulations. In the Regulations 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 or Oversea, 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 diffusing 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 pubhc 

 attention on any matter, by watching the emigration movement in the district with a 

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

 ment, by promoting 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 with similar functions, and 

 which should have as its headquarters a suitable building or place of meeting designed 

 to afford facihties similar to those of the Institute Building in London. 



* These regulations have not been finally approved by the Council, but are at present the 

 by' ect of correspondence with the Honorary Corresponding Secretaries Overseas. 



