Proceedings of the Western Gas Association Annual Meeting, Volumes 15-18The Association., 1900 - Gas manufacture and works |
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Page 179 - Report of special committees. Miscellaneous business, which may be laid aside informally and taken up at any time. Special order for the presentation of papers, drawings or models, or other matters of interest to the Association entitled to consideration under its rules, in the discussion of which all the members shall be entitled to participate, and such special order may be considered at any time by vote of the Association.
Page 440 - ... executive board by the executive committee of the union. SIGMA XI. The president of the Sigma Xi Society has been made an ex officio member of the executive board, such election to be made automatically in the case of each successive president. COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES. By joint action of the National Academy of Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and National Research Council, a joint committee on natural resources, representing all three of these scientific...
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Page 544 - Said Board shall annually, immediately after its own organization, elect a Finance Committee of three from its own number, who shall have power to examine at any time the books and accounts of the...
Page 436 - ... provinces, cities, or even individual citizens of the same country, than the endless diversity of instrumentalities employed for the purpose of determining the quantities of exchangeable commodities. For the inconvenience and confusion resulting from this cause, but one effectual remedy can possibly be suggested, and that is the general adoption throughout the world of a common system of weights and measures.
Page 541 - Directors, under the general direction of the members in convention. SEC. 2. A majority of the Board shall constitute a quorum, and the Board shall have power to fill any vacancies that may exist therein.