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VOIApUK.
Proceedings of the International volapuk
Congress at Paris.

Congress at Paris.
I The third International Volapuk Con-
gress was held at Paris August 18th to Dist,
1889, and the Volapuk papers containing
an account OF the proceedings have recent
ly come to hand. The following rules con-
corning the Volapuk Academy were
adopted by the congress:
l. The Academy engages only in the
completion and correction of the grammar
and dictionary of the inventor.
2. The Academy is the sole authority on
questions of language.
3 Members of the Academy are chosen
from among the most distinguished Vola-
pukists of the different countries of the
world.
f. In each country as many members of
the Academy can be chosen as the country
has 100000 inhabitants. A fraction of
10000, 600 is counted as 100000.
s. Each country will be entitled to the
standard number of members only when
Volapuk shall have been sufficiently pro-
pa gated in it,
6. This number can be exceptionally in
creased in favor of very merltorious per.
sons.
Z. The election of members takes place
ana a majority of the voters decides
8. The Director of the Academy should
nominate as members the persons who
have been proposed to him by the clubs of
the respective countries.
8. If the clubs do not propose anyone
within two months, or if there is no club
in existence, the directory shall elect can
didate.
10. The term of Office of members of
the Academy is five years reelection is
allowed.
IL. The Academy is governed by a direc-
tory formed of (G) the Inventor (b) Di-
rector; (c) q Vice Director; (d) two Secre-
taries.
r. The Director and Vice Director of
the Academy are elected by the members
for five years. They can be reelected.
The Secretaries are appointed by the Di-
rector.
49, A simple majority of the voters de-
cides.
ID. If the number of votes for and against
are equal, the vote of the Director decides
15. The decisions of the Academy should
be Immediately submitted to the Inventor.
If the Inventor does not object, the decs-
ion of the Academy, after thirty days, is
conclusive. The decisions which are not
approved by the Inventor are considered
by The Academy again, and become conciu-
sive only after they have been adopted by
two-third5 vote.
16. The decisions of the Academy are
published in Volapuk in the official organ
of the Academy. The official paper is to be
chosen by them.
II The Director must submit to the
Academy all motions signed by SIX men,
bers.
IS. A member of the Academy who will
not obey the official decisions of the ma
jority of the Academy, and who will not
during year, and without a good cause,
take part in the work of the Academy,
ceases TO be a member. The Director must
move his dismissal.
10. The dismissal of a member is eff
feced by two-thirds vote of the voters.
20. Each member of the Academy pays
annual dues often francs, until the Academy
shall have the necessary money for their
requirements. The directory OF the
Academy decides how this money shall be
used. One of the Secretaries is Treasurer CT
the Academy.
81. These decisions can only be changed
by an International Congress.
1t is hoped that these rules will smooth
over some of the rough places where fric-
ton has heretofore existed.
The Paris Congress did not have time
to discuss the rules of the grammar, but,
they decided that simple standard gram
mar, written entirely in Volapuk, from
which everything unnecessary is excluded,
should be at once prepared by the members
of the Academy. Until the Academy has
issued such a grammar, the teachers of
Volapuk should teach as they have done
up to the present time.
A new Volapuk paper has just been
started in Portland Or, by Arnold Scherz-
niger, Professor of Volapuk, entitled Vola-
pakaa Melopik. OrviIle D. Orion of st.
Louis, has also just established Volapuk
department in The AlturiSt.
Volapuk is making progress in other
paris of the world faster than in America.
Here there is such large body Of English
speaking people who come in contact with
nations OF other languages so seldom that
they feel the need of it less than in the
smaller countries of Europe, where the
travelling public will meet nations using
three or four different languages in a single
day. Volapuk has apparently come to
stay, and promises to progress more rap
idly in the future than it has done in the
past. A. l.. BANCROFT.
San Francisco. November 4, 1889.