Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Volume 17The Society, 1891 |
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Page 126 - The American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers...
Page 155 - Convention, which shall be held at a time and place to be determined by the Board of Direction.
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Page 147 - Any person having the necessary qualifications prescribed in this Act to entitle him to registration shall be eligible for such registration though he may not be practicing his profession at the time of making his application.
Page 121 - That the Conference expresses the hope that the technical studies designed to regulate and extend the application of the decimal system to the division of angular space and of time shall be resumed, so as to permit the extension of this application to all cases in which it presents real advantage.
Page 150 - The annual contributions shall become due for the ensuing year on the first day of January, and shall be payable in advance. It shall be the duty of the Secretary to notify each member of the amount due for the ensuing year at the time of giving notice of the Annual Meeting.
Page 13 - Associate-Member shall be a professional engineer not less than twenty-seven years of age, who shall have been in the active practice of his profession for at least six years, and who shall have had responsible charge of work as principal or assistant for at least one year. Graduation from a school of engineering of recognized reputation shall be considered as equivalent to two years
Page 152 - Association, the Board of Direction shall have power to declare the office vacant. Vacancies in any office for the unexpired term shall be filled by the Board of Direction, except as provided above.
Page 153 - House of the Society and the property therein ; shall make recommendations to the Board with reference thereto, and shall direct the expenditure for books and other articles of permanent value, of snob stuns as may be appropriated for these purposes.
Page 96 - States to call an International Conference to fix on and recommend for universal adoption a common Prime Meridian to be used in the reckoning of longitude and in the regulation of time throughout the world.