Article VII. — Amendments. 



These By-Laws may be amended in the following manner : 



Written notice of proposed change, signed by at least three resident 

 members, may be presented at any meeting of the Academy. Such 

 notice shall be referred to the Board of Managers for consideration 

 and recommendation. The Board of Managers shall consider the 

 proposed change and return it to the Academy for action, with such 

 amendment or recommendation as it deems wise. A two-thirds vote 

 of the members voting shall be necessary to adoption. 



RULES RELATING TO PUBLICATION. 



1. The Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences shall 

 be issued in dated brochures, paged consecutively for the volume. 



2. A brochure may comprise one or more papers, according to 

 length, at the option of the Committee on Publication. 



3. The date on each brochure shall be that of actual publication^ 

 which shall be one day later than the date of delivery by the printer 

 to the Committee. 



4. Each brochure shall be distributed on the date of its publication. 

 Copies shall be sent to all members of the Academy, to subscribers,^ 

 and to a library and exchange list approved by the Board of Man- 

 agers. 



5. At the close of each volume, which shall coincide as nearly as 

 possible with the calendar year, a brochure comprising volume title- 

 page, contents, and index shall be issued. 



6. The regular edition shall consist of one thousand copies. 



7. Contributors to the Proceedings must be members of the Acad- 

 emy, or of one of the Affiliated Societies; provided however that in 

 exceptional cases the Board, by a three-fourths vote of the members 

 voting at a stated meeting, may accept for publication papers contri- 

 buted by non- members of the Affiliated organization. 



8. Each paper offered for publication must be accompanied by a 

 written recommendation from the Affiliated Society representing the 

 branch of Science to which the paper relates, except in special cases 

 where publication is ordered by the Board. 



9. An Affiliated Society recommending a paper for publication may 

 subscribe for such share of the edition as it may need. In case of 

 special papers ordered published by the Board of Managers, the whole 

 cost of publication shall be borne by the Academy. 



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