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bers interested in the same department, to endeaver to advance knowl- 
edge in that particular department. Each curator shall report at such 
time and place as the Academy shall direct. 'These reports shall include 
a brief summary of the progress of the department during the year 
preceding the presentation of the report. 
2. The President shall deliver a public address on the morning of 
one of the days of the meeting at the expiration of his term of office. 
3. The Press Secretary shall attend to the securing of proper news- 
paper reports of the meetings and assist the Seerctary. 
4. No special meeting of the Academy shall be held without a notice 
of the same having been sent to the address of each member at least 
fifteen days before such meeting. 
5. No bill against the Academy shall be paid without an order signed 
by the President and countersigned by the Secretary. 
6. Members who shall allow their dues to remain unpaid for two 
years, having been annually notified of their arrearage by the Treasurer. 
shall have their names stricken from the roll. 
7. Ten members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of 
business. 
8. An Editor shall be elected from year to year. His duties shall be 
to edit the annual Proceedings. No allowance shall be made to the Editor 
for clerical assistance on account of any one edition of the Proceedings 
in excess of fifty ($50) dollars, except by special action of the Executive 
Committee. (Amendment passed December 8, 1917.) 
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE PUBLICATION OF THE REPORTS 
AND PAPERS OF THE INDIANA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE.* 
(Approved March 11, 1895.) 
WHEREAS, The Indiana Academy of Science, a chartered scientific 
association, has embodied in its constitution a provision that it will, 
upon the request of the Governor, or of the several departments of the 
State government, through the Governor, and through its council as an 
advisory board, assist in the direction and execution of any investigation 
within its province without pecuniary gain to the Academy, provided 
only that the necessary expenses of such investigation are borne by the 
State; and, 
WHEREAS, The reports of the meetings of said Academy, with the several 
papers read before it, have very great educational, industrial and economic 
value, and should be preserved in permanent form; and, 
WHEREAS, The Constitution of the State makes it the duty of the 
_ *Failure of Legislature at its 1919 session to appropriate anything for publica- 
tion of the Proceedings for 1919 and 1920. 
