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III. Business Staff: 
1. Bursar 
2. Chief Clerk 
IV. Clerical Staff: 
1. Secretaries to Chairmen 
2. Division Clerks 
3. Stenographers 
4. General Clerks 
a. Draughtsmen 
b. Special or Head of c, d, e. 
c. Bookkeeper 
d. Typists 
e. Filing 
V. Miscellaneous Employees: 
1. Superintendent of Building 
2. Telephone Operators 
3. Messengers 
4. Watchmen or Guards 
5. Police workers 
Moved: That in the absence of a superior executive officer the Secretary of the Division, 
exercising executive functions, be designated as "Executive Secretary." (Adopted.) 
The Secretary presented a joint memorandum from the Committee on Or- 
ganization of Administration and from the Budget Committee, regarding the 
salary list and bonuses for the year commencing July 1. The matter was left 
over for further consideration and the Secretary was requested to send a copy 
of the proposed salary and bonus schedules to the heads of Divisions and to 
present a further report at the next meeting of the Interim Committee. 
Considering the question of expenses of members in attendance at meetings 
of the Executive Board and Executive Committees of the Divisions, it was 
Moved: That members of the Executive Board residing out of the city of Washington 
shall be allowed their transportation expenses and in addition, expenses, not to exceed $6 per 
day, for maintenance during their attendance at meetings of the Executive Board, and that 
members of the Executive Committees of the Divisions shall be allowed transportation arid 
maintenance expenses on the same basis as members of the Executive Board or only trans- 
portation expenses, at the discretion of the Division concerned.* (Adopted.) 
In behalf of the Committee on Representation of the United States at the 
International Meetings at London and Brussels, July, 1919, Messrs, Walcott 
(Chairman), Leuschner, and Yerkes, Mr. Leuschner reported that a cable- 
gram had been received from Mr. Mendenhall, Scientific Attache at London, 
containing a provisional program of meetings; that in accordance with this 
schedule, meetings of the International Research Council, of the proposed In- 
ternational Astronomical, Chemical and Geophysical Unions, and conferences 
to discuss the question of internationl organizations in Medicine, Mathematics, 
Geology, Biology, and Physics, and conferences on International Patents, and 
* This motion was subsequently amended. It will appear in the amended form in the 
printed minutes of a later meeting. 
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