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BY-LAWS. 



Skctiox 9. Every donation to the musenm shall be referved to the 

 standing connnittee of the department in which it may lie elassed ^ 

 in ca.se of doubt on this point, or when from other causes s\ich refer- 

 ences cannot be made, such donation shall be referred to a sjiecial com- 

 mittee, whose duty it sliall be to report thereon at the next regular 

 meeting of the Society. 



ClJAP'i'KH VI. 



PUBLICATIONS. 



SkctioN 1. All papers read before the Society sh;ill first be referred 

 to the Committee upon the department to which tliey i-cfcr, or to such 

 special Committee as the case may require; and if deemed to l)c of 

 sullicicnt importance, shall be ])lnccd in tlie hands of the Conimittee 

 (»f l'ul)lications. 



Section- 2. The Committee of Publications shall receive all such 

 papers as have been pronounced worthy of iJuI)lication by the several 

 Staniling or S])ccial Committees; and shall, if exj)edient, cause them 

 to l)e pul)lishcd as i-arly as possible, in the form prescribed in Section 

 3 of this Chapter, and shall folhtw in i)ul)lication as far as jiossible thti 

 order in which they have been received. 



Section 3. All publications of the Society shall be issued in ))am- 

 l)hlet form, of uniform size, entitled "Transactions of the Orleans 

 County Society of Natural Sciences." 



Section 4. The ]jroof sheets of all papei-s accepted by the Com- 

 mittee for publication shall be submitted to the author, if requested, 

 for correction. 



Section 5. Every author shall be entitled to an extra copy of the 

 number or numbers in which his papers appear, and on timely appli- 

 cation to the Committee, he shall he entitled to twenty extra copies 

 of )iis paper at the Society's expense. 



Section 6. The Society shall be responsible for the cost of all its 

 publications. 



Section 7. The Chairman of this Committee shall take charge of 

 all papers repented for publication ; keep an account of the number 

 of publications printed, of the number presented, and t(j whom pre- 

 sented, and of those sold, and on hand ; he shall also keep a correct 

 account of the money transactions of the Committee, receive all mon- 

 eys arising from the sale of the publications, pay all bills for the publi- 

 cations from such receipts, if sulficient, and deposit any surplus pro- 

 ceeds with the Treasurer. 



