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by three members of the Committee, to act upon such matters affecting the 

 administration of the Museum as cannot await consideration at the Regular 

 Monthly Meetings of the Board of Trustees. It shall, before the beginning of 

 each fiscal year, prepare and submit to the Board an itemized Budget, setting 

 forth the probable receipts from all sources for the ensuing year, and make 

 recommendations as to the expenditures which should be made for routine 

 maintenance and fixed charges. Upon the adoption of the Budget by the 

 Board, the respective Committees shall be considered as authorized to make 

 the expenditures detailed therein. No increase in the expenditures under any 

 items of the Budget shall be made, except by authority of the Board of Trustees, 

 but the Executive Committee shall have authority, in cases of emergency, to 

 expend a further total sum not exceeding two thousand dollars in any one 

 month. 



Sec. 8. The Administration Committee shall have general supervision of 

 the affairs of the Museum. The Committee shall hold one meeting each month 

 with the Director at the Museum within a week preceding each Monthly Meet- 

 ing of the Board of Trustees. 



Sec. 9. The Auditing Committee shall have supervision over all account- 

 ing and bookkeeping, and full control of the financial records. It shall cause 

 the same, once each year, or oftener, to be examined by an expert individual 

 or firm, and shall transmit the report of such expert individual or firm to the 

 Board at the next ensuing regular meeting after such examination shall have 

 taken place. 



Sec. 10. The Chairman of each Committee shall report the acts and 

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



Sec. 11. The President shall be ex-ofhcio 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 VIII. 



NOMINATING COMMITTEE. 



Section i. At the November meeting of the Board each year a Nom- 

 inating Committee of three shall be chosen by lot. Said Committee shall 

 make nominations for membership of the Finance Committee, the Building 

 Committee, the Administration Committee, and the Auditing Committee, and 

 for two 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 IX. 



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, expenditures, field work, laboratories, library, publications, lec- 

 ture courses, and all scientific and maintenance activities. 



. Sec. 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. 



