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SECTION V. 
OF THE DUTIES OF OFFICERS. 
1. The President shall have the general direction of the affairs of the Institute 
subject to the Regulations, preside at all meetings of the Institute or the Coun- 
cil at which he is present, and regulate and keep order in the proceedings. 
2. The Vice-Presidents shall (in the order of their precedence) discharge these 
duties in the absence of the President. 
3. In the absence from any meetings of the President and Vice-Presidents, the 
members present may elect one of their number to take the chair. 
4. The Treasurer shall receive for or on account of the Institute all moneys 
payable to it, keep an account thereof, and deposit them forthwith in one of the 
Banks in the city of Toronto to the account of and for the use-of the Institute, 
unless otherwise ordered by the Council. No money shall be paid out except 
by order of the Council. 
5. The Secretary shall keep the seal of the Institute and send out the notices 
provided for in these Rules. He shall take minutes of all the proceedings of 
the Institute and of the Council, enter them in proper books, and read at each 
meeting the minutes of the previous meeting. Subject to the direction of the 
Chairman he shall bring before the meeting all business matters according to the 
order established in. these regulations and conduct the correspondence of the 
Institute. 
6. The Secretaries of Sections shall perform the like duties for their respective 
Sections, and shall, on or before the 20th day of April of each year, present 
to the Council a report on the work done by their Sections and the list of their 
members during the past year. If no such report be made, or if a Section have 
not held at least two meetings during the year, it shall, ipso facto, cease to 
exist. 
7. An assistant Secretary may be appointed by the Council, who shall hold 
office during their pleasure. They shall define his duties and fix his remunera- 
tion. 
8. The Editor shall have vwharge of the publication of the Transactions of the 
Institute in conjunction with an Editing Committee to be nominated by the 
Council from among its members at the first meeting thereof after the Annual 
meeting. All papers or abstracts of papers read before the Institute and 
intended for publication shall be handed to the Editor at the close of the meet- 
ings at which they are read, or as soon as possible thereafter, and the decision as 
to publishing any paper shall rest with the Editing Committee. 
Every report of any Section, Committee or officer of the Institute shall be 
made to the Council and approved by them before publication. 
9. The Librarian shall have the care of all books, documents, plans, drawings, 
