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particular department allotted to him when appointed. All regulations made by the 
Curators shall be approved by the Council before such regulations shall come into 
operation, 
3. The Curator having charge of any division of the collection shall alone be author- 
ized to select duplicate specimens from such division for the purpose of exchange or dona 
tion ; but no exchange or donation shall be made except such as is authorized by a vote 
of the Council. 
4. The increase and improvement of the collections being the inducement to exchange, 
it shall be the duty of the Curators to report to the Council all such opportunities to ex- 
change as would favor this object. 
CHAPTER VI.—O/f Committees. 
1. The Committee of Finance shall audit all accounts against the Academy, and shall 
have the duties and powers of a committee of Ways and Means. They shall report on 
financial questions referred to them, whenever called upon to do so by the Academy or 
the Council. 
2. Committees for special purposes may be appointed when required. 
CHAPTER VII.—Of Sections. 
1. Sections of special branches of science may be established upon the written petition 
of ten members, five of whom shall be fellows. The request must be approved by the 
Council and ratified at a business meeting. But if the petitioners fail to organize such 
Section within six months of said approval all action relative to said Section shall be void. 
If an established Section shall fail to hold a meeting or to report to the Academy its pro- 
ceedings during any period of twelve months, it shall be the duty of the Secretary to in- 
form the Academy that it is extinct. 
2. Sections shall be organized with at least a Chairman and Recorder. 
3. Sections may increase the number of their members by election, but only members 
and fellows of the Academy may be elected to membership in the Sections. 
4. The Academy will not be responsible for debts contracted by any Section, or by 
any officer or member thereof, without the approval of the Council. 
5. All meetings of the Sections which are not private or working meetings, shall be 
held under the auspices and authority of the Academy; but the officers of a Section may 
take charge of the meeting of the Academy during the presentation of the scientific busi- 
ness of the Section. 
6. Papers read in Academy meeting by any Section shall be credited, in the Proceed- 
ings, to that Section. 
7. Each Section shall submit to the Academy at the Annual Meeting a report of its 
proceedings and work for the year. 
8. The books and scientific material of all the Sections shall be the common property 
of the Academy, except in cases provided for by special agreement. 
9g. Donations to any Section shall be received as donations to the Academy for the use 
of that Section. 
CHAPTER VIIIl.— Of the Museum and Collections. 
I. All donations shall have the name of the donors affixed thereto. 
2. All members shall have access to the Museum, subject to the regulations of the 
Academy. 
