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At the Annual Meeting the Director shall make an Annual Report, reviewing 

 the work of the Museum for the previous year, which Annual Report shall be 

 published in pamphlet form for the information of the Trustees and Members, 

 and for free distribution in such number as the Board may direct. 



ARTICLE VI. 



AUDITOR. 



Section i. The Board shall appoint an Auditor, who shall hold his office 

 during the pleasure of the Board. He shall keep proper books of account, 

 setting forth the financial conditions and transactions of the Corporation, and 

 of the Museum, and report thereon at each regular meeting, and at such other 

 times as may be required by the Board. He shall certify to the correctness 

 of all vouchers for the expenditure of the money of the corporation. 



ARTICLE VII. 



. ■ COMMITTEES. 



Section i. There shall be five Committees as follows: Finance, Building, 

 Auditing, Administration and Executive. 



Sec 2. The Finance, Building and Auditing Committees shall each con- 

 sist of three members, and the Administration Committee shall consist of five 

 members. All members of these four Committees shall be elected by ballot 

 by the Board at the Annual Meeting, and shall hold office for one year, and 

 until their successors are elected and qualified. In electing the members of 

 these Committees the Board shall designate the Chairman and Vice-Chairman 

 by the order in which the members are named in the respective Committee; 

 the first member named shall be Chairman, the second named the Vice-Chair- 

 man, and the third named Second Vice-Chairman, succession to the Chairman- 

 ship being in this order in the event of the absence or disability of the Chairman. 



Sec 3. The Executive Committee shall consist of the President of the 

 Board, the Chairman of the Finance Committee, the Chairman of the" Building 

 Committee, the Chairman of the Administration Committee, the Chairman of 

 the Auditing Committee, and two other members of the Board to be elected 

 by ballot at the Annual Meeting. 



Sec 4. Four members shall constitute a quorum of the Executive Com- 

 mittee; three members shall constitute a quorum of the Administration Com- 

 mittee, and in all other standing Committees two members shall constitute a 

 quorum. In the event that, owing to the absence or inability of members a 

 quorum of the regularly elected members cannot be present at any meeting 

 of any Committee, then the Chairman thereof, or his successor, as herein provid- 

 ed, may summon any member of the Board of Trustees to act in place of 

 the absentee. 



Sec 5. The Finance Committee shall have supervision of investing the 

 endowment and other permanent funds of the Corporation, and the care of 

 such real estate as may become its property. It shall have authority to invest, 

 sell, and reinvest, funds, subject to the approval of the Board. 



Sec 6. The Building Committee shall have supervision of the con- 

 struction, reconstruction, and extension of any and all buildings used for 

 Museum purposes. 



Sec 7. The Executive Committee shall be called together from time to 

 time as the Chairman may consider necessary, or as he may be requested to do 



