N Constitution. 



(c) Subscriptions shall be collected by the Local Honorary 

 Treasurer of each Centre, and by him forwarded to the General 

 Treasurer, after deducting expenditure authorized by the Council. 



(d) The Local Committees shall not have power to expend money 

 without the authority of the Council, with the exception of the Local 

 Committee of the Centre in which the next ensuing Session is to be 

 held, which shall have the power to expend money collected, or 

 otherwise obtained in that Centre. Such disbursements shall be 

 audited, and the financial statement and the surplus funds forwarded 

 to the General Treasurer at least half-yearly. 



(e) All cheques shall be signed either by the General Treasurer 

 and a General Secretary, or by the Local Treasurer and Secretary 

 of the Centre at which the next ensuing Session is to be held. 



(/) Whenever the balance in the hands of the Treasurer shall 

 exceed the sum requisite for the probable or current expenses of the 

 Association, the Council shall invest the excess in the names of the 

 Trustees. 



(g) The whole of the accounts of the Association, i.e., the local 

 as well as the general accounts, shall be audited annually by an 

 auditor appointed by the Council, and the balance sheet shall be 

 submitted to the Council at the first meeting thereafter, and be 

 printed in the Annual Report of the Association. 



XIL— GRANTS FOR RESEARCH. 



(a) Grants may be made by the Association to Committees or 

 to individuals for the promotion of Scientific research. 



(b) Committees and individuals to whom grants of money shall 

 be entrusted are required to present to the following Meeting a 

 report of the progress which has been made, together with a state- 

 ment of the sums which have been expended. Any balance shall 

 be returned to the General Treasurer. In each Committtee the 

 Secretary is the only person entitled to call on the Treasurer for 

 such portions of the sums granted as may from time to time be 

 required. In making grants of money to Commircees or to indi- 

 viduals, the Association does not contemplate the payments of 

 personal expenses to the Members, or to individuals. 



XIH— SECTIONS OF THE ASSOCIATION. 



The Council shall have the power to constitute such sections of 

 the Association as it may consider necessary. The following sections 

 have been constituted : — 



A. Astronomy. 

 Chemistry. 

 Mathematics. 

 Meteorology. 

 Physics. 



