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CHAPTER 34 DUTIES OF OFFICES OF PRAESIDIA 213
faithful carrying out of the system in all its details. Default in
this trusteeship is an act of infidelity to the Legion. The
armies of the world would call it treachery and would visit the
offender with the severest penalties.
3. He shall be primarily charged with the responsibility of
seeing that the room of the meeting is ready (that is, as
regards light, heat, seating, etc.) for the meeting to begin at
the due time.
4. He shall begin the meeting punctually at the appointed
hour, interrupt the proceedings at the ordained time for the
recitation of the Catena, and bring the meeting to a
conclusion at the prescribed time. In this connection, it is
suggested that the President keep a watch before him on the
table.

5 In the absence of the Spiritual Director, he shall give the
Allocutio or assign someone to give it.
6. He shall instruct and supervise the other officers in the
performance of their duties.
7. He shall always be on the alert for members of special
merit whom he can recommend to the Curia in connection
with vacant officer ships in his own praesidium or elsewhere.
As the efficiency of a praesi dium depends on the excellence of
its officers, it should be the glory of a President to raise up
worthy ones, and thus provide for the future of the Legion.

8. He shall set a high level of spirituality and zeal to all his
fellow legionaries, but not in such a way as to take upon
himself work which his members should be doing. Were the
President to do the latter, he might indeed show zeal, but he
would not set example; for he is preventing those, for whom
the example is intended, from following his lead.

9. He shall remember that whispered or indistinct reports
are the enemy of the meeting. He must himself speak in a
tone of voice which will ring throughout the room. If he relax
in this, he will find his members delivering reports which can