REPORT OF THE STATISTICIAN. . 593 
ARTICLE XIT. 
When the time arrives for the election of members of the International Institute 
the president distributes a month before the commencement of the session a list of 
all the names of whom the candidateship have been proposed to him with the signa- 
tures of at least five members of the institute. 
The election takes place by scrutin de liste unless five members claim individual 
ballot. Vote by correspondence is admitted ; in this case it is made always by bal- 
- loting upon the list. 
It is required for election a majority of three-fourths of the votes cast. In case 
two candidates have obtained the same number of votes for the same place, there 
will be a reballoting, at which only the members present will take part. 
The election of members of the Bureau is made by secret ballot by individual vote 
and the majority of votes cast. The members present have sole right of suffrage. 
As a general rule, in the meetings of the International Institute the resolutions, 
except in the case of the election of members, are adopted after discussion by a ma- 
jority vote. 
Whenever there is vote by nominal call, the names of the members who have 
voted for and against, or who have abstained, are mentioned in the official report. 
ARTICLE XIII. 
The International Institute names among its members reporters or constitutes 
commissions for the preparatory study of the questions which may be submitted to 
its deliberations, and for the composition and editing of special publications in the 
domain of international statistics. In the interval of the sessions the same preroga- 
tive appertains to the Bureau; in case of urgency the general secretary, in accord 
with the president, prepares the reports or the conclusions, 
ARTICLE XIV. 
The International Institute will publish: 
First. A quarterly bulletin. 
This bulletin will contain: 
(a) Report of the sessions of the International Statistical Institute; 
(b) Reports upon the organization and reforms of the official statistics of the dif- 
ferent countries upon the changes in personnel, etc.; 
(ec) Works of international statistics; 
(d) Résumé of the recent and most important works upon statistics; 
(e) An international bibliography of statistics, giving the catalogue of recent pub- 
lications, the contents of reviews, annual and bulletin periodicals of statistics. 
Second. An annual of international statistics. 
This annual will contain international statistical comparisons which will be estab- 
lished according to information furnished by the different countries. 
ARTICLE XY. 
The financial resources of the institute are: 
First. The assessment of the titular members, fixed at 1 pound sterling =20 marks= 
25 francs. These assessments are due from and include the financial year of the 
election. They give right to all the publications of the institute from the year of 
the election. 
The financial year dates from the ist of July to the end of June. A delay of two 
years, not justified, in the payment of the assessment will be considered as equiva- 
lent to a resignation. 
The assessment can be commuted by a sum of 10 pounds sterling—200 marks=250 
francs. 
Second. The assessment and subscriptions of the central commissions, official 
bureaus, and statistical societies of the different countries, which acquire thus a 
right to a certain number of copies of all the publications of the International Insti- 
tute for the current year. 
Third. The endowments and other donations. 
It is proposed to form a reserve fund, the revenues of which will be applied to the 
expenses of the International Institute. 
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