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or support of some local public Museum or Library ; or otherwise shall provide for the 

 contribution of not less than one-sixth of its said revenue towards the extension and 

 maintenance of the Museum and Library of the New Zealand Institute. 



4. Any Society incorporated as aforesaid which shall iu anj' one year fail to expend 

 the proportion of revenue affixed in manner provided by Rule 3 aforesaid, shall from 

 thenceforth cease to be incorporated with the Institute. 



5. All papers read before any Society for the time being incorporated with the 

 Institute, shall be deemed to be communications to the Institute, and may then be 

 published as proceedings or transactions of the Institute, subject to the following regula- 

 tions of the Board of the Institute regarding publications : 



Regulations regarding Publications. 



{a) The publications of the Institute shall consist of a current abstract of the 

 proceedings of the Societies for the time being incorporated with the Institute, to 

 be intituled, "Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute," and of transactions 

 comprising papers read before the Incorporated Societies (subject, however, to 

 selection as hereinafter mentioned), to be intituled, ' ' Transactions of the New 

 Zealand Institute." 



(6) The Institute shall have power to reject any papers read before any of the 

 Incorporated Societies. 



(c) Papers so rejected will be returned to the Society before which they were read. 



(d) A proportional contribution may be required from each Society towards the cost 

 of publishing the proceedings and transactions of the InstitutQ. 



(e) Each Incorporated Society will be entitled to receive a proportional number of 

 copies of the proceedings and trarisactions of the Institute to be, from time to time, 

 fixed by the Board of Governors. 



{/) Extra copies will be issued to any of the Members of Incorporated Societies at 

 the cost price of publication. 



6. All property accumulated by or with fupds derived from Incorporated Societies 

 and placed in the charge of the Institute shall be vested in the Institute, and be used 

 and applied at the discretion of the Board of Governors for public advantage, in like 

 manner with any other of the property of the Institute, 



7. Subject to " The New Zealand Institute Act, 1867," and to the foregoing rules, 

 all Societies incorporated with the Institute shall be entitled to retain or alter their own 

 form of constitution and the bye-laws for their own management, a.nd shall conduct 

 their own affairs. 



8. Upon application signed by the Chairman, and countersigned by the Secretary of 

 any Society, accompanied by the certificate required under Eule No. 1, a certificate of 

 incorporation will be granted under the Seal of the Institute, and will remain in force as 

 long as the foregoing rules of the Institute are comx^lied with by the Society, 



Section II. 

 For the Management of the Property of the Institute. 



9. All donations by Societies, Public Departments, or private individuals, to the 

 Museum of the Institute, shall be acknowledged by a printed form of receii^t, and shall 

 be duly entered in the books of the Institute provided for that purpose, and shall then 

 be dealt with as the Board of Governors may direct. 



