REGULATIONS. 
1. OBJECT OF THE CONGRESS. 
The congress will deliberate on all important affairs concerning fishing and fish 
culture, and will submit propositions and memorials to governments and to provincial 
and local authorities. 
2. MEMBERS OF THE CONGRESS. 
The membership of the congress will consist of government, state, and provincial 
representatives, delegates from home and foreign societies, corporations, and personages 
invited by the management of the congress, and persons at home and abroad who are 
deemed to have an interest in the purposes of the congress and express a wish to take 
part in it. 
3. RIGHTS TO MEMBERS. 
All the members of the congress have the right to vote, to participate in the dis- 
cussions, and to make independent propositions. In case a corporation should be 
represented by several delegates, the members of this delegation have the right to only 
one vote, which shall be cast by the delegate designated to the presiding officer. The 
delivery of the card of admission gives to members the right to take part in all the 
enterprises and excursions projected by the congress, to receive all the publications, 
and to wear the insignia of the congress. The members of the congress are required 
to conform to its regulations and decisions. 
4. ORGANIZATION OF THE CONGRESS. 
The congress will follow officially the preceding international fishery congresses, 
and will conform to the decisions for the regulation of the international fishery congresses 
decreed at Paris in 1900. The president and the secretary-general of the congress will 
be nominated by the United States Bureau of Fisheries; the vice-presidents will be 
elected by the congress from among its members. 
5. ELECTIONS AND RESOLUTIONS OF THE CONGRESS. 
All the resolutions of the congress are adopted by an absolute majority of the 
members present having the right to vote. (See sec. 3.) In case of division the presi- 
dent’s vote will decide. Elections take place by ballot. Formal propositions and 
resolutions intended for the consideration of the congress should be in the hands of the 
local committee by August 1, 1908. The committee will decide on the admission of 
such propositions; but in case of rejection it is required to make known to the congress 
the reasons therefor. 
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