XI. 
MONEY GRANTS. 
23. Committees and individuals to whom grants of money have 
been entrusted are required to present to the following meeting a 
report of the progress which has been made, together with a state- 
ment of the sums which have been expended. Any balance shall be 
returned to the General Treasurer. 
24. In each Committee the Secretary is the only person entitled 
to call on the Treasurer for such portions of the sums granted as may 
from time to time be required. 
25. In grants of money to committees, or to individuals, the 
Association does not contemplate the payment of personal expenses 
to the members or to the individual. 
SECTIONS OF THE ASSOCIATION. 
26. The following sections shall be constituted : — 
AL — Astronomy, Mathematics, and Physics. 
B. — Chemistry. 
0. — Geology and Mineralogy. 
D. — Biology. 
E. — Geography. 
E . — Ethnology and Anthropology. 
G. — Economic Science and Agriculture. 
H. — Engineering and Architecture. 
1. — Sanitary Science and Hygiene. 
J . — Mental Science and Education. 
SECTIONAL COMMITTEES. 
27. The Presidents, A ice-Presidents, and Secretaries of the several 
sections shall be nominated by the Local Committee of the colony in 
winch the next ensuing Session of the Association is to be held, and 
shall have power to act until their election is confirmed by the 
Council. From the time of their nomination, which shall take place 
as soon as possible after the Session of the Association, they shall be 
regarded as an Organising Committee, for the purpose of obtaining 
information upon papers likely to be submitted to the sections, and 
tor the general furtherance of the work of the Sectional Committees. 
The sectional Presidents of former years shall be ex officio members of 
the Organising Committees. 
28. The Sectional Committees shall have power to add to their 
number. 
29. The Committees for the several sections shall determine the 
acceptance of papers before the beginning of the Session. It is there- 
fore desirable, in order to give an opportunity to the Committees of 
domg justice to the several communications, that each author should 
prepare an abstract of his paper, of a length suitable for insertion in 
the published transactions of the Association, and that he should send 
it, together with the original paper, to the Secretary of the section 
before which it is to be read, so that it may reach him at least a 
fortnight before the Session. 
30. Members may communicate to the sections the papers of 
non-members. 1 
31. The author of any paper is at liberty to reserve his right of 
property therein. 
