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day in the month of January, one thousand nine hundred and 

 four, to be fixed by the Governor, and annual meetings of 

 the Board shall be regularly held thereafter during the month 

 of January in each year, the date and place of such annual 

 meeting to be fixed at the previous annual meeting. 



(2.) The Board of Governors may meet during the year at 

 such other times and places as it deems necessary. 



(3.) At each annual meeting the President shall present to 

 the meeting a report of the work of the Institute for the year 

 preceding, and a balance-sheet, duly audited, of all sums 

 received and paid on behalf of the Institute. 



10. The Board of Governors may from time to time, as it 

 sees fit, make arrangements for the holding of general meet- 

 ings of members of the Institute, at times and places to be 

 arranged, for the reading of scientific papers, the delivery of 

 lectures, and for the general promotion of science in the 

 colony by any means that may appear desirable. 



11. The Colonial Treasurer shall, without further appro- 

 priation than this Act, pay to the Board of Governors the 

 annual sum of five hundred pounds, to be applied in or 

 towards payment of the general current expenses of the 

 Institute. 



12. (1.) On the appointment of the first Board of Go- 

 vernors under this Act the Board of Governors constituted 

 under the Act hereby repealed shall cease to exist, and the 

 property then vested in, or belonging to, or under the control 

 of that Board shall be vested in His Majesty for the use and 

 benefit of the public. 



(2.) On the recommendation of the President of the In- 

 stitute the Governor may at any time hereinafter, by Order in 

 Council, declare that any part of such property specified in 

 the Order shall be vested in the Board constituted under this 

 Act. 



13. All regulations, together with a copy of the Transac- 

 tions of the Institute, shall be laid upon the table of both 

 Houses of Parliament within twenty days after the meeting 

 thereof. 



EEGULATIONS. 



The following are the new regulations of the New Zealand 

 Institute under the Act of 1903 : — 



The word "Institute" used in the followmg regulations 

 means the New Zealand Institute as constituted by " The 

 New Zealand Institute Act, 1903." 



