RULES AND REGULATIONS 13 



It shall be the duty of the president of each section, or in event of 

 his being unable to do so, of the vice-president, to prepare an address, 

 having reference to the special objects of the section, for each annual 

 meeting. 



The society in general session, or any of the sections, with consent 

 of the societ}', may appoint committees to prepare reports on any special 

 literary or scientific matters, or on the progress of literature and science, 

 or on works published in Canada, and to suggest such honorary notice 

 as may seem desirable in the case of meritorious works or researches. 



The ordinar}^ committee of the section shall be limited to three in 

 number, and consist of the officers of the section or any members that 

 the section may select to make up the number. 



17. Reading of Papers. 



I. — The representatives of each section in the council shall l)e the 

 judges of the papers to be accepted or rejected. No paper shall be read 

 in any section, at any general meeting of the society, unless it has been 

 presented, either in full or in abstract, at least three weeks before the 

 first day of the meeting, and formally accepted by the council, in accor- 

 dance with rule 10 of the society, except by special permission of the 

 council. The publication of any paper not so accepted, as having been 

 read before or presented to it, may be disavowed by the society. 



II. — iSTo paper already published shall be accepted by the society 

 ■ except in cases where it shall have been entirely recast. 



III. — A programme containing the titles of papers to be read shall 

 be printed and sent to the members of the society at least one week 

 before the time of meeting. 



IV. — It shall be the duty of the secretaries of each section to pre- 

 pare before each day's meeting a list of the papers to be presented to each 

 section, with the names of the authors and the time demanded for their 

 reading. These lists shall be printed and made public each morning 

 before the time fixed for the meeting. 



18. Publication of Papers. 



1. — The author shall revise his MS. after reading, to prepare it for 

 the press. 



II. — The first proof in galley shall be sent to the author, and also a 

 revise in galley. 



III. — The matter shall then be put in page, and a proof sent to the 

 secretary of the section to which it belongs, who will sign the proof when 

 he has corrected it. Should the author demand it, he may see a proof 

 in page. 



