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Charter of the Linnean Society. 
Forster, Charles Hatchett, William Lewis, Thomas Rackett, John 
First Presi- Symmons, and ThomasYoung, to be the first Council; the said James 
First Trca- Edward Smith, to be the first President ; the said Thomas Marsham, 
First Secre- to be the first Treasurer; and the said Alexander M c Leay, to be the 
To y continue first Secretary, to the said Society : All and each of the aforesaid 
24th of May, Officers and Counsellors to continue in such their respective Offices 
until the Twenty-fourth Day of May One thousand eight hundred 
SmttoajT an< l three; an( i tnat tne sa *d James Edward Smith shall have Power 
EJf of Sfe" 1 " to appoint such Four Persons, from and amongst the Members of the 
tobeVke^ 51 sa *^ Council, to be Vice-Presidents of the said Society, as he shall 
Presidents, ^fakik fit, until some other Persons shall be chosen in their re- 
spective Rooms, in the Manner hereinafter mentioned. And it is 
T'lic Fellows, 
or any 21 or Our further Will and Pleasure, that the Fellows of the said 
os the 2-uh of Society, or any Twent} r -one or more of them, shall and may, on 
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and yearly the Twenty-fourth Day of May, One thousand eight hundred and 
shall, 'by Bai- three, and also shall and may, on the Twenty-fourth Day of May 
Mem r bers°of ' in every succeeding Year, unless the same shall happen to be on 
for theme- 3 Sunday, and then on the Day following, assemble together at 
and cfectFhe the then last, or other usual Place of meeting of the said Society, 
inthekRoomj anc ^ proceed, by Method of Ballot, to put out and amove any 
Five of the Members who shall have composed the Council of the 
preceding Year ; and shall and may, in like Manner, by Method 
of Ballot, elect Five other discreet Persons from amongst the 
Fellows of the said Society, to supply the Places and Offices of 
such Five as may have been so put out and amoved; it being Our 
Royal Will and Pleasure, that One-third of the Members of the 
said Council, and no more, shall be annually changed and re- 
and shall elect nioved by the Fellows of the said Society: And, also, that they, 
facSuadf* the said Fellows, or any Twenty-one or more of them, shall and 
S^ & may, at the Time and Place, and in Manner aforesaid, by Method 
secretary for of Ballot, elect, from among the Members of the said Council, 
when 
