FINANCE. V 



(c) The Local Committee of the Centre in which the next 

 ensuing Session is to be held shall have the power to expend 

 money collected., or otherwise obtained in that Centre, other than 

 the subscriptions of Members. Such disbursements shall be 

 audited, and the financial statement and the surplus funds for- 

 warded to the General Treasurer within one month after the 

 Annual Session. 



( </ ) All cheques shall be signed by the General Treasurer and 

 a * leneral Secretary, or by such other person or persons as may 

 be authorised by the Council. 



e I Whenever the balance in the hands of the Treasurer 

 shall exceed the sum requisite for the probable or current ex- 

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

 the names of the Trustees. 



(/) On the request of the majority of the members 

 of Council of any centre in which two or more members of 

 Council reside, the Council shall empower the local 

 members of Council in that centre to expend sums not 

 exceeding ix the aggregate tex per centum of the amount 

 of annual subscriptions raised in that centre. 



[(/) ] ( 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. 



X.— SECTIONS OF THE ASSOCIATION. 



The Scientific Work of the Association shall be transacted 

 under such sections as shall be constituted from time to time by 

 the Council, and the constitution of such Sections shall be pub- 

 lished in the Journal. 



The Sections shall deal with the following Sciences and such 

 others as the Council may add thereto from time to time : — Agri- 

 culture ; Anthropology and Ethnology. Archaeology; Architec- 

 ture ; Anatomy ; Astronomy ; Bacteriology ; Botany ; Chemistry ; 

 Education ; Engineering ; Eugenics ; Geology and Surveying ; 

 Geography. Geology and Mineralogy ; Irrigation ; Mathematics ; 

 Mental Science; Meteorology ; Philology ; Physics; Physiology; 

 Political Economy ; Sanitary Science ; Sociology ; Statistics, 

 Zoology. 



XL— RESEARCH COMMITTEES. 



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

 to individuals for the promotion of Scientific research. 



(&) Every proposal for special research, or for a grant of 

 money in aid of special research shall primarily be considered by 

 the Sectional Committee dealing with the science specially con- 

 cerned, and if such proposal be approved, shall be referred to 

 the Council. 



( c) A Sectional Committee may recommend to Council the 

 appointment of a Research Committee, composed of Members of 



