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to the terms of the Constitutions and by pledging their corresponding 
shares of financial support. 
At the concluding session of the Conference, the Executive Committee 
was authorized to invite all leading neutral countries to enter into full 
membership relations with the Research Council and the affiliated unions. 
In accordance with the terms of the Constitution, each adhering country 
is under obligations to contribute to the financial support of the Council. 
The relative amount of its contribution and the number of votes to which 
it is entitled are as defined by the following scale : 
POPULATION OF COUNTRY 
NUMBER OF VOTES 
NO. OF FINANCIAL 
UNITS 
Less than 5 million inhabitants 
1 
1 
Between 5 and 10 million inhabitants. . . 
2 
2 
Between 10 and 15 million inhabitants... 
3 
3 
Between 15 and 20 million inhabitants... 
4 
5 
More than 20 million inhabitants 
5 
8 
The value of the financial unit for the Research Council itself during the 
first period of the convention (three years) may not exceed 250 francs per 
annum. That is, the annual obligation of the United States, in the first 
period, may not exceed 2000 francs annually. Funds received in this 
manner from the adhering countries shall be devoted to meeting the ex- 
penses of the administrative Bureau of the Council. 
In advance of each triennial meeting the Executive Committee shall 
prepare a proposed financial budget for each of the three years following 
the meeting. A Finance Committee, nominated by the General Assembly 
of the Council, shall study this budget, and likewise audit the financial 
accounts for the preceding period. This Committee shall submit to the 
General Assembly separate and distinctive reports upon these two sub- 
jects. The Council in General Assembly shall determine the value of the 
contributive financial unit. 
It was decided that the city of Brussels shall be the legal seat of the Inter- 
national Council of Research, and that the proceedings shall be governed 
by the laws of Belgium. It was likewise determined that the adminis- 
trative seat of the Council — the Secretariat — shall be in the city where 
resides the General Secretary, in this instance in London. 
The Executive Committee of the Council will submit the Constitution 
to the national academies, the national research councils, or the govern- 
ments whose representatives took part in the Brussels Conference, for their 
approval. The International Research Council shall be considered as 
definitively constituted when three of the greater allied countries shall 
have expressed their approval. It is hoped that these approvals may 
be obtained not later than January 1, 1920. 
