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communication, they shall make such corrections therein as 

 they may judge necessary to fit it for the press; or if they 

 shall judge the publication of an abstract or extracts from the 

 paper to be more eligible, they shall accompany their report 

 with such abstract or extracts. But if the author do not ap- 

 prove of the corrections, abstract, or extracts, reported by the 

 committee, he shall be at liberty to withdraw his paper. 



3. Communications not intended by their authors for pub- 

 lication in the Transactions, will be received by the Society, 

 and the title or subject of them recorded; and, if they be in 

 writing, they shall be filed by the secretaries. 



4. The Transactions shall be published in numbers, at as 

 short intervals as practicable, under the direction of the com- 

 mittee of publication, and in such a form as the Society shall 

 from time to time direct ; and every communication ordered 

 to be published in the Transactions shall be immediately sent 

 to the printer, and fifty copies thereof be given to the author 

 as soon as printed. 



5. The order in which papers are read shall determine their 

 places in the Transactions, unless otherwise ordered by the 

 Society ; priority of date giving priority of location. 



6. The expenses of publishing the Transactions shall be de- 

 frayed by subscriptions and sales, aided by such funds as the 

 Society shall from time to time appropriate for that purpose. 



CHAPTER XL 



OF STANDING AND SPECIAL COMMITTEES. 



SECTION 1. There shall be chosen, at the stated meeting on 

 the third Friday of January in each year, three members of 

 the Society to be a committee of finance, five to be a com- 

 mittee of publication, three to be a committee on the hall, and 

 five to be a committee on the library. 



2. The committee of finance shall have the general super- 

 intendence of the financial concerns of the Society. They 

 shall consult with the treasurer, and authorize and direct in- 



PROC. AMER. PHILOS. SOC. XXVIT. 131. I. PRINTED JAN. 31, 1890. 



