xi Charter of the Linnean Society. 
The Council, hereby appointed, and the Council of the said Society for the Time 
or anv 5 or J rr . 
more of them, being, or any Five or more of them, all the Members thereof having 
all having ° J ° 
been sum- been first duly summoned to attend the Meetings thereof, shall and 
moned, em- . ^ __. 
powered to maynave Power, according to the best of their Judgment and Dis- 
Laws, " -cretion, to make and establish such Bye-Laws as they shall deem 
useful and necessary for the Regulation of the said Society, and of 
the Estate, Goods, and Business thereof; and for fixing and 
determining the Times and Places of meeting of Ihe said Society, 
and also the Times, Place, and Manner of electing, appointing, 
and removing all Fellows, Honorary Members, Foreign Members, 
and Associates, of the said Society, and all such subordinate 
Officers, Attendants, and Servants, as shall be deemed necessary 
or useful for the said Society ; And also for filling up, from Time 
to Time, any Vacancies which may happen by Death, Removal or 
otherwise, in any of the Offices or Appointments constituted or 
established for the Execution of the Business and Concerns of the 
said Society ; and for regulating and ascertaining the Qualifications 
of Persons to become Fellows, Honorary Members, Foreign 
Members, and Associates, of the said Society respectively, and 
also the Sum and Sums of Money to be paid by them respectively, 
whether upon Admission or otherwise, towards carrying on the 
and to alter Purposes of the said Society ; And such Bye-Laws, from Time to 
Laws ; ye Time, to vary, alter, or revoke, and make such new and other 
Bye-Laws as they shall think most useful and expedient, so that 
the same be not repugnant to these Presents, or to the Laws of 
this Our Realm: Provided that no Bye-Law hereafter to be made, 
but no Bye- J * 
Law, or ai- or Alteration or Repeal of any Bye-Law which shall hereafter have 
teratton, shall. _ A . 
be wading on been established by the said Council hereby appointed, or by the 
until it shall Council for the Time being of the said Society, shall be considered 
have been , , 5\ J 
confirmed by to have passed, and be binding on the said Society, until such 
Ballot, at a -„ T it! • t* i^ 
<ieneraiMeet- Bye-Law, or such Alteration or Repeal of any Bye-Law, shall have 
been 
