decision to be valid. If this number has not been attained the voting procedure 
may be repeated once. 
The Council shall be entitled to reject a proposal submitted to the vote if 
the majority of the Council considers the proposal to be of such importance 
that it must be submitted to a meeting of delegates or to a General Assembly.” 
§ 15. The proposal of the Delegate Meeting to set up a Committee for 
revision of the Statutes was unanimously adopted, as well as the proposal 
that the Committee should consist of “the President and Secretary-General for 
the period 1956—1960, one Council member from another country and one 
person from a third country” and that this Committee “be entrusted with the 
task of revising the Statutes of the ISP”. Further, that “the revision shall aim 
at giving the ISP an organisation and the resources necessary for active work 
also between the Congresses. The activities in question shall include, for 
example, international photogrammetric investigations, the editing and revision 
of a photogrammetric dictionary and bibliography and the publishing of a 
photogrammetric journal. It is foreseen that existing resources in different 
countries will be taken into consideration”. Since the new Administration had 
not yet been elected the question of the composition of the Committee was 
postponed. See § 21. 
§ 16. The Secretary-General submitted for the approval of the General 
Assembly the following resolution, based on a motion presented by Captain 
Reading and discussed earlier at the Delegate Meeting: 
“That, within the general framework of General Brown’s talk to the Council 
and Commission Boards of 23 July 1956, and allowing flexibility to admit of the 
necessary exceptions to enable an orderly and comprehensive programme to 
be set up: 
the Congress invite the Administration acting jointly with the seven Commis 
sion Boards to organise the publication and acceptance of papers as also the 
Commission meetings and discussion upon the following broad lines: 
1. Prior publication of a limited number of invited papers on specific 
subjects. 
2. Discussions initiated by a panel of invited persons, one of whom should be 
the author of the paper. 
3. The marshalling, categorizing and filtering of the multitude of other papers 
that are presented to the congress.” (See further Appendix to these Minutes, 
P. 82.) 
§ 17. Professor C. Wang, representative of the All-China Federation of 
Scientific Societies gave an account of the development of photogrammetry in 
the People’s Republic of China and expressed the thanks of the Chinese 
Delegation to the organisers of the Congress. 
§ 18. The President announced that an offer in writing had been received 
from Great Britain to arrange the IX International Congress of Photo 
grammetry in England in 1960, and that a similar offer had been made by 
the Belgian delegation. The latter offer had however been changed, when it 
was understood that two offers had been made, and now referred to the X 
Congress and the alternative of Belgium or the Belgian Congo (Leopoldville). 
The President gave the floor to the Chief British delegate, Brigadier A. H. 
Dowson, who on the request of the two British members of the ISP, the 
British Photogrammetric Society and the Royal Institution of Chartered 
Surveyors presented this invitation, which was accepted with warm applause 
by the General Assembly and for which the thanks of the ISP were expressed 
by the President. 
The President announced that a written offer to organise a later Congress 
had been received from the German Photogrammetric Society, and expressed 
the gratitude of the ISP to Belgium and Germany. 
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