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It shall be competent for the President, in special cases, 
to call in the aid, upon committees, of experts, or men of 
remarkable attainments, not members of the Academy. 
EcT. 5. The Foreign and Home Secretaries shall con- 
duct the correspondence proper to their respective depart- 
ments, advising with the President and Council in cases 
of doubt, and reporting their action to the Academy at its 
January session. It shall be the duty of the Home Secre- 
tary to give notice to the members of the place and time 
of all meetings, and to make known to the Council all 
vacancies in the list of members. 
The minutes of each session shall be duly engrossed 
before the next stated session, under the direction of the 
Home Secretary. 
EcT. 6. The Treasurer shall attend to all receipts and 
disbursements of the Academy, giving such bond, and fur- 
nishing such vouchers, as the Council may require. He 
shall collect all dues from members, and keep a set of 
books, showing a full account of receipts and disbursements. 
€ shall present at each stated session a list of the mem- 
bers entitled to vote, and a general report at the January 
Session. He shall be the custodian of the corporate seal of 
ARTICLE IlIl. 
Of the Meetings. 
Sect. 1* The Academy shall hold two stated sessions 
in each year,—one in the city of Washington, on the 
Wednesday next succeeding the third Sunday of January, 
and one in August, at such time and place as the Academy 
hall have determined upon, in private meeting, on the last 
day of the preceding January session. 
* Amended August 25, 1865. 
