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Section io. The Chairman of each Committee shall report the acts and 

 proceedings thereof at the next ensuing regular meeting of the Board. 



Section ii. The President shall be ex-officio a member of all Committees and 

 Chairman of the Executive Committee. Vacancies occurring in any Committee may 

 be filled by ballot at any regular meeting of the Board. 



ARTICLE IX. 



NOMINATING COMMITTEE. 



Section i. At the November meeting of the Board, each year a Nominating 

 Committee of three shall be chosen by lot. Said Committee shall make nominations 

 for membership of the Finance Committee, the Building Committee, the Auditing 

 Committee, and the Pension Committee, and for three members of the Executive 

 Committee, from among the Trustees, to be submitted at the ensuing December 

 meeting and voted upon at the following Annual Meeting in January. 



ARTICLE X. 



Section i. Whenever the word '* Museum " is employed in the By-Laws of the 

 Corporation, it shall be taken to mean the building in which the Museum as an 

 Institution is located and operated, the material exhibited, the material in study 

 collections, or in storage, furniture, fixtures, cases, tools, records, books, and all 

 appurtenances of the Institution, and the workings, researches, installations, ex- 

 penditures, field work, laboratories, library, publications, lecture courses, and all 

 scientific and maintenance activities. 



Section 2. These By-Laws may be amended at any regular meeting of the 

 Board of Trustees by a two- thirds vote of all the members present, provided the 

 amendment shall have been proposed at a preceding regular meeting. 



