Excerpt from Code of Statutes: Given at the R. Palace in Stockholm on the 29th June 1900
The Board shall administer the funds of the Foundation as well as the other property, real and otherwise, belonging to it, in so far as such is common to all the sections.
It shall be a function of the Board to hand over to the winners of pri zes in accordance with the rules of the Foundation, the prizes so won, and besides, to attend to the payment of all duly authorised expenses connected with the prize-distribution, the nobel-institutes and similar objects. It shall further be incumbent on the Board to be of assistance, in matters that are not ofa scienti fic character, to all those who have to do with the Foundation, where help be required.
The Board shall be empowered to engage the services of a lawyer to summon or prosecute a person or to defend a case on its behalf if need arise, and, in general, to act as the representative of the Foundation. The Board shall be entitled to engage the assistants who may be necessary for the proper discharge of its duties, and also to fix the terms, both as regards salary and pension, on which such assistants shall be remunerated.
The adjudicating corporations shall appoint fifteen delegates, for two civil years at a time; of these delegates the Academy of Science shall choose six and each of the other bodies three. To provide against inconvenience from the dis ability of a delegate to serve at any time, the Academy of Science shall appoint four substitutes, and each of the other bodies two.
The delegates shall elect one of their number to act as chairman. That election shall be held at a meeting to which the oldest of the delegates chosen by the Academy of Science shall summon his fellow-delegates.
A minimum of nine delegates shall constitute a quorum.
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