SECTION 2. The Finance Committee shall consist of five 

 members, the Auditing and Pension Committees shall each consist 

 of three members, and the Building Committee shall consist of five 

 members. AJ1 members of these four Committees shall be 

 elected by ballot by the Board at the Annual Meeting and shall 

 hold office for one year, and until their successors are elected 

 and qualified. In electing the members of these Committees, 

 the Board shall designate the Chairman and Vice-Chairman by 

 the order in which the members are named in the respective 

 Committee; the first member named shall be Chairman, the 

 second named the Vice-Chairman and the third named, Second 

 Vice-Chairman, succession to the Chairmanship being in this 

 order in the event of the absence or disability of the Chairman. 



SECTION 3. The Executive Committee shall consist of the 

 President of the Board, the Chairman of the Finance Com- 

 mittee, the Chairman of the Building Committee, the Chairman 

 of the Auditing Committee, the Chairman of the Pension Com- 

 mittee, and three other members of the Board to be elected by 

 ballot at the Annual Meeting. 



SECTION 4. Four members shall constitute a quorum of the 

 Executive Committee, and in all standing Committees two mem- 

 bers shall constitute a quorum. In the event that, owing to the 

 absence or inability of members, a quorum of the regularly 

 elected members cannot be present at any meeting of any Com- 

 mittee, then the Chairman thereof, or his successor, as herein 

 provided, may summon any members of the Board of Trustees to 

 act in place of the absentee. 



SECTION 5. Tbe Finance Committee shall have supervision 

 of investing the endowment and other permanent funds of the 

 Corporation, and the care of such real estate as may become its 

 property. It shall have authority to invest, sell, and reinvest 

 funds, subject to the approval of the Board. 



SECTION 6. The Building committee shall have supervision 

 of the construction, reconstruction, and extension of any and all 

 buildings used for Museum purposes. 



SECTION 7. The Executive Committee shall be called together 

 from time to time as the Chairman may consider necessary, or as 

 he may be requested to do by three members of the Committee, 

 to act upon such matters affecting the administration of the 

 Museum as cannot await consideration at the Regular Monthly 

 Meetings of the Board of Trustees. It shall, before the begin- 

 ning of each fiscal year, prepare and submit to the Board an 

 itemized Budget, setting forth the probable receipts from all 

 sources for the ensuing year, and make recommendations as to 

 the expenditures which should be made for routine maintenance 

 and fixed charges. Upon the adoption of the Budget by the 

 Board, the expenditures as stated are authorized. 



SECTION 8. The Auditing Committee shall have supervision 

 over all accounting and bookkeeping, and full control of the 

 financial records. It shall cause the same, once each year, or 



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