be entitled to propose the name of one person for appointment as member of the Syndicate. Such proposal must reach the Registrar seven clear days before the meeting. The Registrar shall cause a list of the nominees to be printed and forwarded to the Fellows concerned four clear days before the meeting. In any contested election the voting shall be by ballot and the procedure shall be the same as that laid down in paragraphs 63-65 of the Senate Regulations. As soon as members have been elected by any Faculty their names shall be notified by the Registrar to all members of the Senate.

3. The election by the Senate shall take place at the Annual Meeting. Not less than seven days before the meeting the names of members who are proposed by any Fellows for election shall be submitted in writing to the Registrar, who shall circulate the names to the members of the Senate at least four clear days before the meeting.

4. Of the fifteen

Act VIII of 1904, sec. 15 (2).

members of the Syndicate so elected at least seven shall be either Heads of or Professors in Colleges affiliated to the University, and of these Syndics at least two shall be elected by the Senate and at least five by the various Faculties :

Three by the Faculty of Arts.
One by the Faculty of Science.
One by the Faculty of Medicine.

In any meeting for election such Syndics to the stated minimum number shall be elected first.

Fellows qualified for election under this Regulation are not debarred from election to the remaining places on the Syndicate. 5. If in the case of any election of a Fellow to the Syndicate the question is raised whether any person Act. VIII of 1904, so elected is or is not a Professor within sec. 15 (3). section 15, subsection (2) of the Indian Universities Act, the question shall be decided by the Senate. 6. The Syndicate shall meet ordinarily once a month, and at other times when convened by the Vice-Chancellor, or in his absence from Calcutta, or when the office of Vice-Chancellor should happen to be vacant, by the Senior Member of the Syndicate present in Calcutta. Whenever an emergency arises and there is not time to summon a meeting of the Syndicate, the Vice-Chancellor may take such immediate action as he deems necessary. The nature of the emergency and the action taken to meet it shall be reported by the Registrar at the next meeting of the Syndicate.

7. The Syndicate shall have power to appoint committees from among its own members, and to add to such committees any Ordinary Fellow of the University and any added member of

a Faculty. The reports of such committees must be considered by the Syndicate as a whole, before being published or acted upon.

8. All members of the Syndicate must ordinarily be resident in or near Calcutta. If any member is temporarily absent from his residence, the Vice-Chancellor or the Dean of his Faculty, as the case may be, may appoint a member possessing the necessary qualifications to officiate during his absence. Should the period of absence exceed three months, the Vice-Chancellor may declare his place vacant.

9. On every vacancy in the Syndicate caused by death or resignation, or otherwise, the Senate or the Faculty, as the case may be, shall proceed to elect a new member for the remainder of the term for which the original member had been elected.

10. If the Senate or the Faculty omits to elect a member of the Syndicate within one month after a vacancy occurs, the ViceChancellor may appoint a person possessing the necessary quali fications.

11. Seven members of the Syndicate shall constitute a quorum, and all questions shall be decided by a majority of the votes of the members present. The Vice-Chancellor, or, in his absence, the Senior Fellow present, shall preside at all meetings of the Syndicate, and if the votes, including that of the President, are equally divided, the President shall have a casting vote.

12. It shall be the duty of the Syndicate to consider and report upon matters to be submitted to the Senate; to appoint, and if necessary to remove, the Examiners and all other officers of the University in regard to whom this power is conferred by the Regulations; to make rules for the conduct of examinations in conformity with the Regulations and to fix the times at which they shall be held; to recommend to the Senate the grant of degrees, honours and rewards; to administer the funds and to keep the accounts of the University; to correspond on the business of the University with the Government and all other authorities and persons; and, generally, to conduct the affairs of the University in accordance with the Act of Incorporation and the Indian Universities Act, the Regulations, and the Resolutions of the Senate and the Syndicate.

13. The Syndicate may from time to time recommend to the Senate such Regulations as may seem desirable.

14. Each Faculty shall report on any subject that may be referred to it by the Syndicate. Any Faculty, or any member or number of members of the Senate, may make any recommendation to the Syndicate and may propose any Regulation for the consideration of the Syndicate.

15. The decision of the Syndicate on any such recommendation or proposition, or on any matter whatever, may be brought before the Senate by any member of the Senate at one of its

meetings, and the Senate may approve, revise, or modify any such decision or may direct the Syndicate to review it: provided that no matter directly concerning any particular Faculty shall be disposed of by the Syndicate or the Senate without having been referred to that Faculty for opinion.

16. All questions as to affiliation or disaffiliation of Colleges or the continuation of affiliation granted to Colleges, or to the courses of instruction which such Colleges will be allowed to adopt for the purposes of University examinations, or to the inspection of and report on the condition of Colleges, shall be dealt with by the Syndicate in accordance with sections 20, 21, 22, 23, and 24 of the Indian Universities Act.

17. All questions as to the recognition of or the withdrawal of recognition from, or the conditions required for the continuance of recognition of schools shall be dealt with by the Syndicate under the Regulations prepared under section 25 (2) (o) of the Indian Universities Act.

18. Whenever practicable, the Syndicate may, with the sanction of the Senate and from the funds of the University or any other funds placed at the disposal of the University for the purpose, institute scholarships for post-graduate study or studentships for research in literary or scientific subjects. The conditions governing their award and tenure shall be laid down from time to time by the Senate.

19. With a view to encourage research in vernacular literature and languages, and foster their growth, the Syndicate may, with the sanction of the Senate, provide grants, prizes or scholarships

for

(a) critical editions of early vernacular texts ;

(b) historical investigations of the origins of vernacular literatures and their early development;

(c) philological investigations of Indian vernaculars and their dialects.

20. The minutes of the Syndicate having been duly confirmed shall be printed and circulated at once to the members of the Senate.

CHAPTER V.

BOARDS OF STUDIES.

1. There shall be Boards of Studies in the following branches of knowledge :

1.

2.

3.

English.

Greek, Latin, French, German and Armenian.
Sanskrit.

10.

Chemistry.

11. Experimental and Mathematical Physics.
12. Zoology.

13. Geology and Mineralogy.

14. Botany.

15. Physiology.

16. Experimental Psychology.

17.

Mathematics.

18. Geography.

19. Teaching.

The Boards shall be respectively appointed by the Faculties as Follows:

Boards 1-9 shall be appointed by the Faculty of Arts.

Boards 10-15 shall be appointed by the Faculty of Science. Boards 16-19 shall be appointed by the Faculties of Arts and Science.

Board 20 shall be appointed by the Faculty of Law.

Board 21 shall be appointed by the Faculty of Medicine.
Board 22 shall be appointed by the Faculty of Engineering.

2. The members of a Board shall be teachers of or Examiners in, or other persons who have a special knowledge of, the subject or subjects with which the Board is concerned.

3. No Board shall consist of fewer than three or of more than twelve members.

4. The members of the respective Boards shall be appointed by the Faculty or Faculties as provided in Regulation 1, from among their own members (including added members), and shall severally hold office for one year from the date of appointment. They shall be eligible for re-appointment. No member shall belong to more than five Boards.

5. The Boards of Studies shall be elected annually at a special meeting of the Faculty called for the purpose, and the election shall take place in the following manner :

(a) The Dean of each Faculty shall as soon as possible after the election of the added members convene a special meeting for the appointment of the Boards.

(b) Each Member of a Faculty will, on receipt of a notice of the meeting, be entitled to propose not more than twelve members of the same Faculty for appointment to each of the Boards under that Faculty. The list of members proposed by him must reach the Registrar seven clear days before the meeting.

(c) The Registrar shall cause a list of the nominees to be printed and forwarded to the Fellows concerned, four clear days before the meeting.

(d) In any contested election the voting shall be by ballot, and the procedure laid down in the Senate Regulations 63-65 shall be followed.

6. Where two or more Faculties have to appoint a Board, they shall appoint the members thereof in the proportion assigned to them by the Syndicate previous to such appointment. 7. Each Board shall elect its own President. Every meeting of a Board shall be convened by its President or, in his absence, by the Senior Fellow belonging to that Board. Three members shall constitute a quorum. The President of a Board or, in his absence, the Senior Fellow belonging to the Board, shall convene a special meeting of the Board on the requisition of two or more members of the Board.

8. The duties of each Board shall be :

(i) to recommend to the Syndicate courses of study for the various examinations of the University in the subjects with which the Board is concerned ;

(ii) to recommend to the Syndicate, for the guidance of teachers and students, books in which the prescribed subjects are suitably treated; and to recommend text-books when such are required: provided that no book or text-book shall be recommended by a Board unless on the written report of some competent person who has read it, which report shall be forwarded to the Syndicate ;

(iii) to consider, at the request of the Syndicate, the reports of the Examiners in the subjects with which the Board is concerned, and to frame such recommendations regarding methods of teaching, study and examination as may seem necessary in the interests of education ;

(iv) to furnish the Syndicate with the names of persons competent to act as Examiners in the subjects with which the Board is concerned; and

(v) to consider and report upon all such matters as may be referred to it by the Syndicate, the Faculties by which its members are appointed, or the Senate.