756 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. 
Article IX.— Amendments . 
Amendments to this constitution may be made at any annual meeting 
by a vote of three-fourths of all the members present; provided, that 
the amendment has been proposed by five members, and that notice has 
been sent to all the members at least one month before the meeting. 
RESOLUTIONS 
REGULATIVE OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY. 
THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE ACADEMY. 
[.By the Academy, December 28, 1882.] 
2. The secretary of the Academy shall be charged with the special 
duty of overseeing and editing the publication of future volumes of 
the Trancactions. 
3. The Transactions of the Academy hereafter published shall con¬ 
tain: (a) a list of officers and members of the Academy; (b) the 
charter, by-laws and constitution of the Academy as amended to date; 
(c) the proceedings of the meetings; and (d) such papers as are duly 
certified in writing to the secretary as accepted for publication in ac¬ 
cordance with the following regulations, and no other. 
6. In deciding as to the papers to be selected for publication, the 
committee shall have special regard to their value as genuine, original 
contributions to the knowledge of the subject discussed. 
9. The sub-committee on publication shall be charged with insisting 
upon the correction of errors in grammar, phraseology, etc., on the 
part of authors, and shall call the attention of authors to any other 
points in their papers which in their judgment appear to need revision. 
[By the Academy, June 2, 1892.] 
The secretary was given authority to allow as much as ten dollars 
for the illustration of a paper when the contribution was of sufficient 
value to warrant it. A larger amount than this might be allowed by the 
committee on publication. 
[By the Academy, December 29, 1896.] 
The secretary was directed to add to the date of publication as printed 
on the outside of author’s separates the words, “Issued in advance of 
general publication.” 
