LAWS AND REGULATIONS. 



1. The Society shall be called The Whitby Literary and Philosophical 

 Society, for supporting a Museum, and for promoting the interests of 

 Science by such other means as it may be able to undertake. 



2. All Subscribers of Two Guineas, or upwards, on admission, and Half a 

 Guinea annually, shall be Members of the Society; and Subscribers of Five 

 Guineas on admission^ and Half a Guinea annually, or of Ten Guineas at one 

 time, without any annual subscription, shall be Governors of the Society. 



3. The business of the Society shall be conducted by a Patron, a Presi- 

 dent, two Vice-Presidents, a Treasurer, two Secretaries, and two 

 Curators, who, with a Committee of eight Members, shall form the 

 Council of the Society. 



4. The Council shall meet for transacting business, on the first Thursday 

 of every Month, or as often as they shall find necessary; and three Members 

 shall form a Quorum. 



5. All Governors shall have a right to attend and vote at the meetings of 

 the Council. 



6. A General Meeting of the Society shall be held on the last Friday in 

 October in each year ; for electing a new Committee, receiving the Report of 

 the retiring Committee,auditing the accounts of the Treasurer, and transacting 

 any other business that may occur. Special Meetings may be called by the 

 Council, or by any seven Members, a week's notice being given. 



7. The Museum shall comprise collections of Fossils, Antiquities, specimens 

 in Natural History, with other miscellaneous Curiosities, whether of Nature or 

 Art; to which may be added Scientific Books, and Philosophical Apparatus. 



8. The Museum shall be open for the convenience of the Members, on such 

 days of the week, and under swch regulations, as the Council shall appoint. 

 The families of Members, residing under their roof, shall have the privilege of 

 visiting the Museum. No other Inhabitants of Whitby shall be gratuitously 

 admitted, except Benefactors and Honorary Members. Strangers who have 

 their residence above ten miles from Whitby, may be introduced by any Mem- 

 ber, or may be^dmitted on such terras as the Council shall fix. — On special 

 occasions, the Curators or the Secretaries, may admit Members or strangers 

 to the Museum, on those days when it is usually shut. 



*i^* This Regulation is modified by the Uth. 



9. After the Society has existed for one year, all new Members shall be 

 admitted by ballot, at a General Meeting of the Society, on such terms as that 

 Meeting shall appoint ; but the Council may, at any of its Meetings, admit to 



