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meetings, upon any urgent occasion ; and to execute or see to the 

 execution of the Statutes of the Academy. 



2. The President, or, in his absence, the next officer as above 

 enumerated, is empowered to draw upon the Treasurer for such sums 

 of money as the Academy shall direct. Bills presented on account of 

 the Library, or the Publications of the Academy, must be previously 

 approved by the resjDective committees on these departments. 



3. The President, or, in his absence, the next officer as above 

 enumerated, shall nominate members to serve on the different com- 

 mittees of the Academy which are not chosen by ballot. 



4. Any deed or writing to which the common seal is to be affixed, 

 shall be signed and sealed by the President, when thereto author- 

 ized by the Academy. 



CHAPTER IV. 



Of Standing Committees. 



1. At the Annual Meeting there shall be chosen the following 

 Standing Committees, to serve for the year ensuing, viz.: — 



2. The Committee of Finance, to consist of the President, Treas- 

 urer, and one Fellow chosen by ballot, who shall have charge of the 

 investment and management of the funds and trusts of the Academy. 

 The general appropriations for the expenditures of the Academy shall 

 be moved by this Committee at the Annual Meeting, and all special 

 appropriations from the general and publication funds shall be 

 referred to or proposed by this Committee. 



3. The Rumford Committee, of seven Fellows, to be chosen by 

 ballot, who shall consider and report on all applications and claims for 

 the Rumford Premium, also on all appropriations from the income of 

 the Rumford Fund, and generally see to the due and proper execu- 

 tion of this trust. 



1. The Committee of Publication, of three Fellows, to whom all 

 memoirs submitted to the Academy shall be referred, and t<> whom 

 the printing of memoirs accepted for publication shall be intrusted. 



5. The Committee on the Library, of three Fellows, who shall 

 examine the Library, and make an annual report on its condition and 

 management. 



G. An Auditing Committee, of two Fellows, for auditing the 

 accounts of the Treasurer. 



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