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(c) A Sectional Committee may, at any time during the 
Annual Meeting, appoint not more than three persons 
present at the meeting to be Vice-Presidents of the 
Section, in addition to those previously appointed 
by the Council. 
5. The chief executive officers of a Section shall be the 
President and the Recorder. They shall have power to act on 
behalf of the Section in any matter of urgency which cannot 
be brought before the consideration of the Sectional Com- 
mittee ; and they shall report such action to the Sectional 
Committee at its next meeting. 
The President (or, in his absence, one of the Vice-Presi- 
dents) shall preside at all meetings of the Sectional Committee 
or of the Section. His ruling shall be absolute on all points 
of order that may arise. 
The Recorder shall be responsible for the punctual trans- 
mission to the Assistant Secretary of the daily programme of 
his Section, of the recommendations adopted by the Sectional 
Committee, of the printed returns, abstracts, reports, or papers 
appertaining to the proceedings of his Section at the Annual 
Meeting, and for the correspondence and minutes of the 
Sectional Committee. 
6. The Sectional Committee shall nominate, before the 
close of the Annual Meeting, not more than six of its own 
members to be members of an Organising Committee, with 
the officers to be subsequently appointed by the Council, and 
past Presidents of the Section, from the close of the Annual 
Meeting until the conclusion of its meeting on the first day of 
the ensuing Annual Meeting. 
Each Organising Committee shall hold such Meetings as 
are deemed necessary by its President for the organisation 
of the ensuing Sectional proceedings, and shall hold a meeting 
on the first Wednesday of the Annual Meeting : to nominate 
members of the Sectional Committee, to confirm the Pro- 
visional Programme of the Section, and to report to the 
Sectional Committee. 
Each Sectional Committee shall meet daily, unless other- 
wise determined, during the Annual Meeting: to co-opt 
members, to complete the arrangements for the next day, and 
to take into consideration any suggestion for the advance- 
ment of Science that may be offered by a member, or may 
arise oub of the proceedings of the Section. 
No paper shall be read in any Section until it has been 
accepted by the Sectional Committee and entered as accepted 
on its Minutes. 
Additional 
Vice-Presi- 
dents. 
EXECUTIVE 
FUNCTIONS 
Of President 
And of 
Recorder. 
Organising 
Committee. 
Sectional 
Committee. 
Papers and 
Reports. 
