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Rules. 



Transactions 

 Right to 

 Publish 

 Papers. 



Separate 

 Copies of 

 Papers. 



Loans. 



Bules. 



Alteration of 

 Rules. 



1 8. The Council shall have the right to publish in the 

 Transactions, or otherwise, the whole, or part, or a resum6 

 of, any paper read by any member or person at a Meeting- 

 of the Society, and the Council shall decide what illustrations, 

 plates, or diagrams shall be reproduced with any such papers. 



.19. Contributors of papers to the Society shall be en- 

 titled, if such papers be published in the Transactions, to 

 receive ten copies gratis of such papers as " separates " in 

 pamphlet form. 



20. The Society is prepared to accept articles of interest 

 for exhibition on loan, but they will not be responsible for 

 their damage or loss by fire, theft, or any other cause. It 

 is desirable that parties lending articles should state the value 

 they put upon them, that the Society may insure the articles 

 for a similar amount. The Council shall have the power to 

 terminate, or to refuse, the loan of such articles as they 

 may from time to time see fit. 



21. These Rules cancel all other rules previously passed. 

 They shall be printed in the Transactions of the Society for 

 191 4-1 5, and shall take effect from the date of their being- 

 signed by the President and Hon. Secretary. 



22. Alterations of these Rules, or the addition of any 

 New Rule, shall only be made with the consent of three- 

 fourths of the Members present at an Annual General 

 Meeting, notice of the same having been given in writing to 

 the Hon. Secretary fourteen days previous to such Meeting, 

 who shall intimate to all members that a change is proposed 

 in the Rules. 



The above twenty-tv/o Rules were approved, due 

 notice having been given in accordance with Rule 13 

 (1906), at a Meeting of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway 

 Natural History and Antiquarian Society, held in the 

 Ewart Public Library on October 16, 1914. 



Hugh S. Gladstone, President. 

 G. W. Shirley, Hon. Secretary. 



