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Sec.  5.  Scope  : — Beside  the  offices  already  assigned  it,  this  body  shall  hold 
and  conduct  the  opening  and  closing  of  the  annual  meetings  ;  shall  receive 
delegates  from  foreign  and  national  bodies  ;  shall  hear  the  reports  of  its  own 
committees  and  delegates,  which  reports  shall  be  referred  to  the  Council,  and 
hear  such  reports  and  transact  such  business  as  may  be  referred  to  it  by  the 
Council. 
SEC  6.  Sections  : — This  body,  for  the  purposes  of  facilitating  the  reading 
and  discussion  of  papers  and  essays,  shall  be  divided  into  five  parts  under  the 
following  heads  : — 
Section  on  Education  and  Legislation, 
Section  on  Research  and  Investigation, 
Section  on  Manufacture  and  Practice, 
Section  on  Commerce  and  Management, 
Section  on  History  and  Museum. 
These  sections  shall  hold  session  during  the  annual  meeting  between  the 
opening  and  closing  sessions  of  this  body.  Each  section  shall  elect,  annually, 
a  Chairman,  Vice-Chairman  and  Secretary  who  shall  constitute  a  committee 
which  shall  manage  the  affairs  of  the  section  during  its  incumbency,  under 
such  rules  and  regulations  as  the  section  shall,  from  time  to  time,  establish  and 
shall  be  approved  by  the  Council. 
SEC.  7.  Sessions  :— This  body  shall  hold,  ac  least,  two  sessions  at  each  annual 
meeting,  the  first  on  the  opening  day  and  the  last  shall  close  the  regular  meet- 
ing of  the  Association.  The  order  of  business  and  program  for  all  sessions 
shall  be  arranged  for  and  be  published  by  the  Committee  on  Programme,  pro- 
vided for  in  Chapter  IV. 
Chapter  II.  Councit. 
SEC.  1.  Composition : — The  officers  of  the  General  Body,  the  chairmen  of 
the  several  sections  and  the  officers  of  this  body,  who  are  not  otherwise 
members  of  it,  shall  be  ex-officio  members  ;  the  President  of  the  American 
Conference  of  Pharmaceutical  Faculties  and  the  President  of  the  National  As- 
sociation of  Boards  of  Pharmacy  shall  be  invited  to  become  and  may  become 
ex-officio  members.  The  other  members  shall  be  the  nine  Councilors  elected 
by  the  General  Body  ;  delegates  from  local  branches  of  this  Association  and 
delegates  from  the  state,  territorial  and  provincial  pharmaceutical  associations. 
SEC.  2.  Delegates  : — Each  regularly  established  local  branch  of  this  Associa- 
tion with  more  than  twenty-four  and  less  than  seventy  five  active  members 
shall  be  entitled  to  send  one  member  to  the  Council  meetings  ;  all  such  branches 
with  seventy-five  or  more  members  shall  be  entitled  to  send  two  members  to 
the  Council  meetings.  Each  state,  territorial  or  provincial  pharmaceutical 
association  which  shall  have  in  its  membership  more  than  twenty-four  and  less 
than  seventy-five  members  of  this  Association,  in  good  standing,  who  are  not 
counted  as  active  members  of  a  local  branch  of  this  Association,  shall  be 
entitled  to  send  one  delegate  to  the  Council  meetings  and  any  such  association 
having  seventy-five  or  more  such  members  shall  be  entitled  to  send  tw© 
members  to  the  Council  meetings.  All  delegates  to  the  Council  must  have 
been  members  of  this  Association  in  good  standing  for  three  years. 
SEC.  3  Officers  : — This  body  shall  annually  elect  from  its  members,  a  Chief 
Councilor,  who  shall  preside  at  all  meetings  and  perform  such  other  duties  as 
