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has still valuable information to give or criticism to make. Manifestly, for the most 
practised speaker, five minutes are quite brief enough within which to do the barest 
justice to a single essay or subject. 
If any essay or group of essays, including any discussion in connection with the 
same, be not finished at the time fixed for the end of the sitting, then the sitting will 
be adjourned, and the unfinished business will be the first taken when the Conference 
reassembles. 
All notices will be in writing, and include the signatures of mover and seconder. 
Notices of motion will be received by the chairman only at the conclusion of the 
business in connection with any essay or group of essays. 
Any notices approved by the chairman will be read aloud to the meeting and 
submitted to such sub-committee as the Conference decides. 
Any sub-committee will, as soon as possible, take into consideration notices of 
motion and such other business as may be relegated to it, and bring up a report upon 
the same at the earliest date. 
Reports from any committee will be brought up as a first business to the 
Conference at any sitting not being an adjourned one, and at an adjourned sitting as 
soon as the adjourned business is completed. 
Voting by the Conference upon any resolution or business submitted from any 
committee will be, at the chairman’s discretion, taken either at once, or at the close of 
the sitting, or at such later time as he may decide and announce. 
Whether finally submitted resolutions shall be open for debate or not must be 
decided by the Conference. If debated, then restricted time limits for speakers should 
be enforced. a 
ESSAYS, &o. 
The association will only receive essays subject to its right to approve or reject. 
Essays will be delivered to the association, say, three weeks before the Conference 
to enable such inspection to be instituted as to ensure any of an unsuitable nature 
being excluded. 
To secure thorough discussion, essays will be printed and copies placed confi- 
dentially in the hands of such delegates as may be interested in the particular subject 
treated on in the essay, and who may ask for the same, one week before the Conference 
opens. 
B Essays read at the Conference will be the sole property of the association until 
officially published. If no publication within six months, the authors to have permis- 
sion to publish. 
Publication of the contents of any essay by the author prior to the Conference 
will render the essay open to rejection at the chairman’s discretion. 
No essays beyond: those scheduled in the syllabus will be taken into consideration 
at the Conference. 
No essay to be read unless it is considered there will be time for discussion. 
Unless discussed, no essay will be published in the proceedings. 
A syllabus detailing the scope of the Conference, along with a list of the essays 
and names of authors. will be placed in the hands of accredited delegates—say, two. 
weeks before the Conference. ; 
. MISCELLANEOUS. 
Should the association have connected with it any officers or members with 
scientific attainments or possessing special information relative to any of the subjects. 
under discussion, then such officers or members shall be nominated to attend the 
Conference. . 
Whether accredited delegates or not, such officers or members will have the right 
to take a full part in the business of the Conference, but, unless accredited delegates, 
will have no voting power. 
If possible, one evening should be devoted for the delivery of a lecture by some 
competent authority upon some subject cognate to the Conference business or of general 
interest to delegates. At the conclusion of the lecture a short discussion to be 
instituted, or at least permission given for questions to be asked by delegates. 
A question box will be a feature of the Conference. Each question will be in 
writing, with the name of the querist attached. 
Chairman to decide whether any question is relevant, and whether it shall be 
considered or not, also who shall answer it. 
Box to be opened and the questions dealt with, should there be time, before the 
close of any sitting other than an adjourned sitting, or otherwise immediately preceding 
the commencement of any new business at any fresh sitting. 
