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present during- tlie examination. The report of the Auditors shall be 

 rendered to the Academy before the adjournment of the meeting and the 

 Academy shall take appropriate action. 



CHAPTER VI : Publications. 



1. The publications are in charge of the Council and under their con- 

 trol, limited only as given by Article YII. of the Constitution. 



2. One copy of each publication shall be sent to each Resident Mem- 

 ber, Corresponding Member, Honorary Member, and Patron, and each 

 author shall receive fifty copies of his memoir. This provision shall 

 not be understood as including publications in journals not controlled by 

 the Academy. [By recent ruling, authors receive no reprints free. If 

 reprints are wanted the Academy will pay two-thirds if the author pays 

 one-third the cost of printing not to exceed two hundred fiftv copies.] 

 (Minutes of 1003.) 



CHAPTER VII: The Research Fund. 



1. The Research Fund shall consist of moneys paid by the general 

 public for publications of the Academy, of donations made in aid of re- 

 search, and of the sums paid in commutation of dues according to the 

 By-Laws, Chapter I, Paragraphs 2 and 4. 



2, Donors to this fund not Members of the Academy, in the sum of 

 twenty-five dollars, shall be entitled without charge, to the publications 

 subsequently appearing. 



CHAPTER VIII: Order of Business. 



1. The order of Business at the Winter [Annual] Meetings shall be 

 as follows : 



(1) Call to order by the Presiding Officer. 



(2) Introductory ceremonies. 



(3) Statements by the President. 



(4) Report by the Council. 



(5) Report of the Treasurer, and appointment of the Auditing Committee. 



(6) Election of officers of the next ensuing Administration. 



(7) Election of Members. 



(8) Announcement of the hour and place for the Address of the retiring 



President. 



(9) Necrological notices. 



(10) Miscellaneous announcements. 



(11) Business motions and resolutions, and disposal thereof. 



(12) Reports of Committees, and disposal thereof. 



(13) Miscellaneous motions and resolutions. 



(14) Presentation of memoirs. 



2. At an adjourned session, the order shall be resumed at the place 

 reached on the previous adjournment, but new announcements, motions 

 and resolutions, will be in order before the resumption of the business 

 pending at the adjournment of the last preceding session. 



