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XIV. Memoirs shall date in the records of the Academy 
from the day of their presentation to the Academy, and the 
order of their presentation shall be that on which they were 
registered, unless changed by consent of the author. 
XV. The publication of any communication to which 
objection is made by the Section to which the subject 
belongs shall be suspended until a second time authorized 
by a vote of the Academy. 
XVI. Papers from persons not members, read before the 
Academy, Classes, or Sections, and intended for publication, 
shall be referred, at the meeting at which they are read, to 
a Committee of members competent to judge whether the 
paper is worthy of publication. Such Committees shall 
report to the Academy as early as practicable, and not 
later than the next stated session. If they do not then 
report, they shall be discharged, and the paper referred to 
another Committee. 
XVII. Abstracts of papers published in the transactions 
of other societies or in journals may be communicated orally 
to the Academy ; and if, on submitting any such communi 
cation to a Committee, its publication be approved, it may 
be ordered for publication on a vote of the Academy. 
XVIII. Short communications or abstracts of memoits 
may be sent by any member to the Home Secretary, who 
shall, if requested by the author, without delay circulate 
‘ them among the members. 
XIX. An Annual of the Academy shall be prepared by 
the Secretaries, and published on the first day of each yeat 
XX. The printing of the Academy shall be under the 
charge of the Secretaries and the Treasurer, as a Committee 
of Publication, who shall report in relation thereto at each 
January meeting of the Academy. 
