564 Statutes of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 
2. The President, or in his absence the next officer as above enumer- 
ated, is empowered to draw upon the Treasurer for such sums of money 
as the Academy shall direct. Bills presented on account of the Library or 
the publications of the Academy must be previously approved by the re- 
spective committees on these departments. 
3. Any deed or writing, to which the common seal is to be affixed, 
shall be signed and sealed by the President, when thereto authorized by the 
Academy. 
CHAPTER III. 
Of the Secretaries. 
1. The Corresponding Secretary shall keep the letter-book, shall record 
all letters written in the name of the Academy, and preserve on file all 
letters which are received ; and, at each meeting, he shall read such let- 
ters as have been addressed to the Academy since the last meeting. With 
the advice and consent of the President, he may propose and make ex- 
changes with such other scientific associations as he shall deem proper, 
and may give copies of the Transactions of the Academy for this purpose. 
2. The Recording Secretary shall have charge of the charter and stat- 
ute-book, journals, and all literary papers belonging to the Academy. He 
shall keep a record of the proceedings of the Academy at its meetings, 
and after each meeting is duly opened by the presiding officer, he shall 
read the proceedings of the last meeting. He shall post up in the hall a 
list of the persons nominated for election into the Academy, which list 
shall remain there at least during the interval between two successive quar- 
terly meetings ; and when any individual is chosen, he shall insert in the 
records the names of the Fellows by whom he was nominated. 
3. The Corresponding and Recording Secretaries shall have authority 
to publish in an octavo form such of the proceedings of the Academy as 
may seem to them calculated to advance the interests of science. 
4. Until the further order of the Academy, it shall be the duty of the 
Corresponding Secretary to transmit to every Fellow thereof residing in 
