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upon a selection being made by the Section shall properly adver- 

 tise the same. 



Art. XI. Each standing committee shall meet at least 

 quarterly. The place of any member who is absent from his 

 committee during six months may be considered vacant, and 

 filled by the Section till the next regular election. 



CHAPTER Xri. 



COMMMITTEE ON PUBLICATIONS. 



Art. I. Immediately after its election the committee on pub- 

 lications shall appoint from its members a Secretary, a Distributor 

 and Treasurer, and keep correct minutes of the financial and 

 other concerns of the "Journal," and other printing. 



1. The Secretary shall be the editor of all matter referred to 

 the committee to be published or printed. 



2. The Distributor shall be charged with the prompt distribu- 

 tion and transmission of all issues by the committee to subscri- 

 bers, as well as to soci(;ties, individuals, and periodicals with 

 which exchanges are authorized, and also for a correct and sep- 

 arate record of the distribution of each of the Section's publi- 

 cations. 



3. The Treasurer shall have charge of the finances of the 

 committee. He shall keep a correct account of all receipts 

 and expenditures, in connection with each publication, sepa- 

 rately ; and he shall report at the meeting in December the 

 number of each publication printed, the number distributed to 

 subscribers, and the number exchanged, with the aggregate of 

 each remaining, together with a statement of his accounts for 

 the year, which shall be referred to the finance committee for 

 examination. 



Art. II. The committee shall receive and cause to be pub- 

 lished as early as possible all papers ordered for publication by 

 the Section and print them, as far as practicable, in the order in 

 which they have been referred. And it shall also print abstracts 

 from the minutes of the meetings of the Section, and summaries 

 of verbal communications made, but only from notes furnished 

 by their authors, which the committee may modify or decline, 

 subject, however, to an appeal to the Section. 



