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Executive Committee elected in February, 1887, shall forthwith 

 draw lots for terms of one, two, three, four and five years, respect- 

 ively, and the terms for which those drawing the two, three, four 

 and five years, respectively, were elected, are hereby extended to 

 cover those periods ; and hereafter at each annual election one 

 member of the Executive Committee shall be elected to serve for 

 five years. They shall have the control and regulation of the 

 Collections, Library, and other property of the Museum ; and shall 

 have power to purchase, sell, and exchange specimens and books, 

 to employ agents, to regulate the manner and terms of exhibiting 

 the Museum to the public, and generally to carry out in detail the 

 directions of the Trustees ; but the Executive Committee shall not 

 incur any expense or liability for the Museum exceeding two 

 thousand dollars at one time, or exceeding, in all, ten thousand 

 dollars, in the interval between the quarterly meetings of the Trus- 

 tees, without the express sanction of the Trustees. 



ARTICLE VII. 



The Auditing Committee shall consist of three, and it shall be 

 their duty to examine and certify all bills presented against the 

 Corporation ; and no bills shall be paid unless first approved in 

 writing by at least two members of this Committee. 



ARTICLE VIII. 



The Finance Committee shall consist of three, including the 

 Treasurer, and it shall be their duty to take charge of and invest 

 the funds of the Museum in its name, and to take all proper 

 measures to provide means for its support. 



ARTICLE IX. 



A majority of the Trustees for the time being shall constitute 

 a quorum for the transaction of business, but five Trustees 

 meeting may adjourn and transact current business, subject to the 

 subsequent approval of a meeting at which a quorum shall be 

 present. 



