6 ROCHESTER ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. [Feb. 25, 
the Academy, and any incomes that may accrue froin the property belonging to the insti- 
tution; shall report at the business meeting in January the names of members in arrears; 
shall give due notice to the Society of the expiration of all policies of insurance that may 
be effected on its property; and pay all debts against the Society which shall have been 
audited by the Committee of Finance, or the discharge of which shall have been ordered 
by the Academy at a regular business meeting. He shall furnish the Committee of 
Finance, on due application, with such information of the state of the funds as they may 
require; and shall report to the Academy, at each business meeting, the condition of its 
finances, and, at the annual meeting, the receipts and expenditures of the entire year. 
5. The Librarian shall have the immediate supervision of the Library, under the au- 
thority of the Library committee. All accessions to the Library shall pass through his 
hands and he shall enter the titles to the same in a suitable book kept for that purpose. 
He shall indelibly stamp every book, pamphlet, paper or other matters, with the stamp 
of the Society, as prescribed by the Library committee or Council. He shall periodically 
make a detailed report of accessions, and, at the annual meeting, shali make a report on 
the condition of the library. 
CHAPTER 1V.—Of the Council. 
1. The President, Vice-Presidents and Secretary of the Academy, shall hold the same 
offices in the Council. In the absence of any of them, officers pro temzpore may be elected. 
2. The Council shall meet at least once a month, within ten days preceding the regu- 
lar meeting of the Academy. Minutes shall be kept of its proceedings, which may be 
called for at any business meeting, upon a vote. of the Academy. Matters of a strictly 
personal nature, however, need not be entered on the minutes of the Council. 
3. Five members of the Council, a majority of whom shall be fellows, shall constitute 
a quorum; but the Council may appoint an Executive Committee, or business may be 
transacted at a regular called meeting of the Council at which less than a quorum is pres- 
ent, subject to the written approval of a majority of the Council, subsequently given to 
the Secretary, and recorded by him with the minutes. 
4. The Council shall prepare all business referred to it by the Academy, and may pre- 
sent any other business at its discretion. It shall frame its own rules and regulations, 
and determine the time and place of its meetings. 
5. The Council shall organize within itself a Committee on Nominations, a Committee 
on Publications, a Committee on the Library, and a Committee on Finance, to whom, in 
the intervals of the meeting of the Council, all matters pertaining to these several subjects 
shall be referred. Their action shall always be subject to the revision of the Council. 
The names of the persons composing these Committees shall be kept publicly posted in the 
rooms of the Academy. 
6. All business prepared by the Council shall be presented to the Academy by the 
Secretary, or, in his absence, by some other officer of the Council. But the Council may 
decline to present business at any meeting at which a majority of those present shall not 
be fellows. 
CHAPTER V.—Of Curators. 
1. The Council shall appoint five Curators, subject to confirmation by the Academy, 
who shall be the custodians of the collections and apparatus of the Society. 
2. The Curators shall be separately charged with the safe keeping and arrangement 
of the several collections, and with the keys of the cabinets. Each Curator shall have his 
