CHAPTER IV. 



OF SPECIAL FUNDS. 



Art. I. The Concliological Section hereby creates separate 

 funds for the following specific purposes: The Conservator's 

 Fund, the Museum Fund, the Library Fund, and the Pub- 

 lication Fund. The principal of each fund shall be kept in- 

 vested in the name of the Section always in good lawful secu- 

 rities — the loans of the United States, of the State of Penn- 

 sylvania, or of the city of Philadelphia, or such sound real estate 

 securities as the Section may direct, and shall be held by the 

 Section in trust for the special purposes for which each fund 

 may be created. 



Art. II. All money which may accrue in the process of 

 chano-inof the investment of a trust fund shall be invested again 

 without delay for the same trust, but no investment shall be 

 changed without the consent of the Section. 



Art. III. The Treasurer shall open and keep in the appro- 

 priate books of the Section a separate and distinct account of 

 each fund Avhich may be created, and record all payments and 

 contributions or donations made to it, as well as all expenditures 

 of interest money authorized on its account, and report the 

 condition of each annually. 



CHAPTER V. 



THE conservator's FUND. 



Art. I. The Section has created a permanent fund called the 

 Conservator's Fund, of which the ultimate amount shall not 

 exceed $30,000, and the interest of which is to be used in com- 

 pensating its Conservator. 



Art. II. All monies realized by lectures, drawings, or duties 

 performed by the Conservator, as well as the receipts from diplo- 

 mas of membership and all life memberships, shall be invested 

 in this fund. 



Art. III. Any person who shall contribute $50 or upwards 

 to this fund, shall receive the following certificate. 



A. B., has contributed dollars to the Conservator's 



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