xxii Bye-Laws of the Linnean Society. 
Money on the Treasurer's behalf, who, upon the Delivery of the 
Receipt to the Fellow paying, is to enter upon that Part of the 
Check which shall be left in the Book the above Particulars, and 
also the Day of Payment. 
VII. The Treasurer shall demand the Annual Contributions, or 
cause them to be demanded, of such Persons as shall neglect to 
make their Payments for Six Months after they become due. 
VIII. The Accounts of the Treasurer shall be audited an- 
nually, a short Time preceding the Anniversary Meeting, by a 
Committee consisting of Five Members of the Council, of whom 
the President and the Secretary to be Two, and of Three Fellows 
of the Society not Members of the Council, who are to be nomi- 
nated by the President and approved by the Majority of the 
Fellows present, such Approval to be determined by Ballot at 
One of the Two next preceding General Meetings ; any Three or 
more of the said Five Members of the Council, whereof the 
President and Secretary shall be Two, together with any Two ox 
more of the said Three Fellows, to be a Quorum of the said Com- 
mittee. The Members of the said Committee who may be of the 
Council shall make their Report to the Council which shall be 
held next after such Audit, on or before the Day of the Anni- 
versary Elections ; and shall, together with the Members of the 
said Committee who may not be of the Council, make their Report 
to the Society npon the Day of the Anniversary Meeting, stating 
not only the Balance in the Treasurer's Hands, but also the 
general State of the Funds of the Society. 
IX. The Treasurer shall take care that all Writings relating to 
the Society's Funds and Property, the Bonds given by the Fel- 
lows, the Policies of Insurance, and other Securities, be lodged 
in the Society's Iron Chest. 
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