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dations as to expenditures which should be made for routine maintenance and 

 fixed charges. Upon the adoption of the Budget by the Board, the respective 

 Committees shall be considered as authorized to make the expenditures detailed 

 therein. No increase in the expenditures umler any items of the Budget shall 

 be made, except by authority of the Board of Trustees, but the Executive 

 Committee shall have authority, in cases of emergency, to expend a further 

 total sum not exceeding two thousand dollars in any one month. 



Sec. 8. The Auditing Committee shall have supervision over all account- 

 ing and bookkeeping, and full control of the financial records. It shall cause 

 the same, once each year, or oftener. to be examined by an expert individual 

 or firm, and shall transmit the report of such expert individual or firm to the 

 Board at the next ensuing regular meeting after such examination shall have 

 taken place. 



Sec. q. The Chairman of each Committee shall report the acts and pro- 

 ceedings thereof at the next ensuing regular meeting of the Board. 



Sec. io. The President shall be ex-oflicio a member of all Committees, 

 and Chairman of the Executive Committee. Vacancies occurring in any Com- 

 mittee may be filled by ballot at any regular meeting of the Board. 



ARTICLE VIII. 



NOMINATING COMMITTEE. 



Section i. At the November meeting of the Board, each year, a Nomi- 

 nating Committee of three shall be chosen by lot. Said Committee shall make 

 nominations for membership of the Finance Committee, tlie Building Com- 

 mittee, and the Auditing Committee, and for three members of the Executive 

 Committee, from among the Trustees, to be submitted at the ensuing Decem- 

 ber meeting, and voted upon at the following Annual Meeting in January. 



ARTICLE IX. 

 amendments. 

 Section i. These By-Laws may be amended at any regular meeting of 

 the Board of Trustees by a two-thirds vote of all the members present, pro- 

 vided the amendment shall have been proposed at a preceding regular meeting. 



