FINANCE. V 



IX.— FINANCE. 



(a) The Financial Year shall end on the 31st of May. 



(b) All sums received for Life Subscriptions and for 

 Entrance Fees shall be invested in the names of three Trustees 

 appointed by the Council, and only the interest arising from such 

 investment shall be applied to the uses of the Association, except 

 by resolution of a General Meeting; provided that any com- 

 position fee as a Life Member paid over to the Trustees of the 

 Endowment Fund after the 30th day of May, 1914, i"ay, upon 

 the death of such Member, be repaid by the Trustees to the 

 General Account of the Association, if the Council shall so 

 decide. 



(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. 



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

 a General Secretary, or by such other person or persons as may 

 be authorised by the Council. 



(e) 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 in the aggregate 10 

 per centum of the amoimt 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- 

 li.shed in the Journal. 



The Sections shall deal with the following Sciences and sucli 

 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; Geodesy and Surveying; 

 Geography, Geology and Mineralog>' ; Irrigation ; Mathematics ; 

 Mental Science; Meteorology; Philology; Physics; Physiology 1 



