xx Eye-Laws of the Linnean Society. 
CHAPTER IX. 
Of the President. 
Sect. I. The Business of the President shall be to preside hi 
all the Meetings, and regulate all the Debates of the Society, 
Council, and Committees; to state and put Questions, which 
shall have been moved and seconded, both in the Affirmative and 
Negative, according to the Sense and Intention of the Meetings ; 
to call for Reports and Accounts from Committees and others ; 
to check Irregularities, and to keep all Persons in the Meetings to 
Order ; to cause all Extraordinary Meetings of the Council and 
Committees to be summoned when necessary ; and, generally, to 
execute, or see to the Execution of, the Statutes and Bye-Laws of 
the Society. 
II. The President shall take place of every Member of the 
Society, at the ordinary Place of Meeting ; and also in all other 
Places where any Number of the Members shall meet as a Society, 
Council, or Committee ; and, being in the Chair, may be covered, 
while speaking to or hearing particular Members, notwithstand- 
ing their being uncovered* 
CHAPTER X. 
Of the Treasurer and his Accounts. 
Sect. I. The Treasurer, or some Person appointed by him,, 
shall receive for the Use of the Society all Sums of Money due 
or payable to the Society; and out of such Money shall pay and 
disburse 
