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who are distinguished in the domain of administrative or scientific statistics, such 
as chiefs of official statistics, members of central commissions cr statistical bureaus 
of states or large towns, members of statistical societies, and other savants. 
The number of titular members can not exceed 150, but ‘need not necessarily attain 
that figure. : 
ARTICLE V. 
Before each session persons charged with a statistical service, who may not be 
members of the International institute, may be invited by the executive committee 
to take part at the session and have deliberative voice, except in questions of interior 
‘administration and for elections. 
ARTICLE VI. 
There can not be accorded to the same state or to a confederation of states a num- 
ber of members exceeding the fifth of the tofal number of the members elected. 
ARTICLE VII. 
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The title of honorary members can be conferred: First, on titular members; sec- 
ond, on persons who are popular in the domain of statistics. 
The honorary members receive gratuitously the publications of the International 
Institute, and enjoy all the rights : ind prerogatives of the titular members. 
ARTICLE VIII. 
At the end of each ordinary session it proceeds to the election of a president, two 
vice-presidents, one general secretary, and one treasurer, who enter immediately en 
function, and constitute to the close of the following session the Bureau of the In- 
ternational Statistical Institute. 
The members of the Buréau are re-eligible. . 
ARTICLE IX. 
The Bureau is charged with the administration of the International Institute. 
The president, in case of urgency, takes the measures that he judges necessary, but 
communicates afterward his decision to the other members of the Bureau. 
ARTICLE X. 
The general secretary i is charged with editing the official reports of the seances, 
and, in concert with the president, with the correspondence, with the publications, 
and the execution of the decisions of the International Institute, except im cases 
where the institute itself has provided otherwise. He has the care of the archives. 
His residence is considered the seat of the institute. 
The general secretary can associate with himself one or more secretaries or em- 
ployés to aid him in the exercise of his functions. 
ARTICLE XI. 
he treasurer is charged with the financial management and the keeping of the 
accounts. He presents at each ordinary session a report for the financial years 
passed. 
Two members are designated at the opening of each session in ‘the capacity of 
puditors to,examine the report of the treasurer, who makes a report in course of 
the session, 
