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31. The Accounts of tlie Institute shall be from time to time examined by the 

 Council, who shall present and cause to be read to the Annual Meeting a complete 

 statement thereof, together with a report on the general affairs of the Institute during 

 the preceding year. 



32. The Council shall, from time to time, publish the proceedings and transactions 

 of the Institute, and accompany them with maps, papers, and other matter, as occasion 

 may require. 



33. Each Fellow shall be entitled to a copy of the publications of the Institute ; 

 but the mode of distribution shall be decided by the Council. 



34. The Council shall, so soon as convenient, establish a Library, Keading-room, 

 and Museum, to which all Fellows, and strangers provided with an order from a Fellow, 

 shall be admitted, under such restrictions as may appear to the Council necessary. 



35. The Council may appoint persons, not being Members of the Council, to be 

 salaried Officers, Clerks, or Servants, for carrying on the necessary concerns of the 

 Institute, and may define the duties to be performed by them respectively ; and may 

 allow to them respectively such salaries, gratuities, and privileges as to the Council 

 may seem proper ; and may suspend or discharge any Officer, Clerk, or Servant from 

 office, whenever there shall seem to them occasion for so doing. 



36. The Council may appoint in any Colony or Dependency of the British Empire, 

 or elsewhere when it may seem expedient, one or more Fellows as Corresponding 

 Secretary or Secretaries. 



Committees. 



37. There shall be three permanent working Committees of Council, namely : 

 1st, Finance and House ; 2nd, Library and Museum ; 3rd, Papers and Publications. 



38. Twice at least in each year a Committee of the Council shall examine, in detail, 

 the state of the Household, the Secretary's department, and the degree of care displayed 

 in keeping the Official Books, the Library, the Museum, &c. 



39. The Council may refer particular subjects to Committees, and such Committees 

 shall report to the Council the result of their proceedings. 



40. AH Committees shall be appointed by the Council. The President, Chairman 

 of the Council, and Secretary (when honorary) shall, ex officio, be Members of all 

 Committees. 



41. No act, order, or resolution of any Committee shall bind the Institute unless it 

 be done or made by the direction and authority of the Council, or be ratified by them. 



42. It shall be competent for the Council to invite the co-operation of persons, 

 not Fellows of the Institute, but who have special knowledge of any particular subject, 

 and to place such persons on any Committee which may be appointed. 



President. 



43. The President, when present, presides at all Meetings of the Council and of the 

 Fellows. The CouncU shall annually elect a Chairman of the Council, who shall hold 

 office for one year, and shall be eligible for re-election, and shall preside in the ab- 

 sence of the President. In the absence of the President, and of the Chairman of the 

 Council, one of the Vice-Presidents, or one of the Members of the Council, shall supply 

 the place of the President or Chairman of the Council. 



44. It is the duty of the Chairman of the Council to carry out the Rules of the 

 Institute, to see that all the Officers of the Institute, and Members of the Council and 



