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Sect. 2. No contract shall be binding upon the Acade- 
my which has not been first approved by the Council. 
Secr. 3. The assessments required for the support of 
the Academy shall be fixed by the Academy on the recom- 
mendation of the Council. 
ARTICLE VII. 
Of Additions and Amendments. 
Additions and Amendments to the Constitution shall be 
made only at a stated session of the Academy. Notice of a 
proposition for such a change may be given at any stated 
session, and shall be referred to the Council, which may 
amend the proposition, and shall report thereon to the Acad- 
emy at its next stated session, with a recommendation that 
it be accepted or rejected. Its report shall be considered by 
the Academy in Committee of the Whole, and immediately 
thereafter acted on. If the addition or amendment receiv? 
two thirds of the votes present, it shall be declared adopted, 
and shall have the same force as the original law. 
EXPLANATORY CLAUSE. 
In consequence of differences of opinion in relation to the 
interpretation of Section 4 of Article IV. of the Constitu- 
tion of the Academy, the following resolution was 
August 5, 1864:— 
« Resolved, That the Academy is of opinion that Section 4 
of Article IV. of the Constitution is to be interpreted to mean 
that any Section of either Class making a nomination shall 
be restricted in the choice to persons eminent in the pranch 
or branches of science understood to be included in the title 
of the Section.” 
