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may, with consent of the council, delegate any part of his duties to a 
paid assistant appointed by the council. 
15. Duties of the Treasurer. 
The treasurer shall have the custody of all moneys of the society, 
shall keep account of the same and submit these to the council at its 
meetings, and shall receive subscriptions, grants and donations, and 
make disbursements as shall .be ordered by the council. 
16. Addresses and Special Reports. 
It shall be the duty of the president, or in event of his being unable 
to do so, of the vice-president, to prepare an address for each annual 
meeting. 
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 society, 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 ordinary 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 be 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 inj abstract, at least three weeks before the 
first day of the meeting, and formally accepted by the council, in accord- 
ance with rule .X. 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. 
IL—No 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. 
