xX OBJECTS AND RULES OF THE ASSOCIATION. 
21. Whenever the balance in the hands of the Banker shall exceed the 
sum requisite for the probable or current expenses of the Association, the 
Council shall invest the excess in the names of the Trustees. 
22. The whole of the accounts of the Association—i.e., the local as well 
as the general accounts—shall be audited annually by two Auditors appointed 
by the Council; and the Balance-sheet shall be submitted to the Council at 
its first meeting thereafter. 
MONEY GRANTS. 
23. Committees and individuals to whom grants of money have been 
entrusted are required to present to the following meeting a report of the 
progress which has been made, together with a statement of the sums which 
have been expended. Any balance shall be returned to the General Trea- 
surer. 
24. In each Committee the Secretary is the only person entitled to call 
on the Treasurer for such portions of the sums granted as may from time 
to time be required. 
25. In grants of money to Committees, or to individuals, the Association 
does not contemplate the payment of personal expenses to the members or 
to the individual. 
SECTIONS OF THE ASSOCIATION. 
26. The following Sections shall be constituted :— 
A.—Astronomy, Mathematics, and Physics. 
B,—Chemistry. 
C.—Geology and Mineralogy. 
D.—Biology. 
#.—Geography. 
F.—Kthnology and Anthropology. 
G.—Economic Science and Agriculture. 
H,—Engineering and Architecture. 
I.—Sanitary Science and Hygiene. 
J.—Mental Science and Education. 
SECTIONAL. COMMITTEES. 
27. The President of each Section shall take the chair and proceed with 
the business of the Section at 1] a.m. precisely. In the middle of the day 
an adjournment for luncheon shall be made; and at 4 p.m. the Sections 
shall close. 
28. [Formerly No. 33.] On the second and following days the Sectional 
Committees shall meet at 10 a.m. 
29. The Presidents, Vice-Presidents, and Secretaries of the several Sec- 
tions shall be nominated by the Local Committee of the Colony in which 
the next ensuing Session of the Association is to be held, and shall have 
power to act until their election is contirmed by the Council. The Sectional 
Presidents of former years shall be ex officio Members of. the Organising 
Committees. From the time of their nomination, which shall take place as 
soon as possible after the Session of the Association, they shall be regarded 
as an Organising Committee, for the purpose of obtaining information upon 
papers likely to be submitted to the Sections, and for the general further- 
ance of the work of the Sectional Committees. 
30. The Sectional Committees shall have power to add to their number. 
READING AND PUBLICATION OF PAPERS. 
31. The Committees for the several Sections shall determine the accept- 
ance of papers before the beginning of the Session. It is therefore desirable, 
in order to give an opportunity to the Committees of doing justice to the 
several communications, that each author should prepare an abstract of his 
paper, of a length suitable for insertion in the published Transactions, 
