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26. A List of the Fellows who shall be in arrear at the time of the Annual Balance 

 of the Accounts of the Institute shall be laid by the Treasurer before the Auditors to 

 be certified by them. 



27. Once in every year the name of every Kesident Fellow in arrear for three 

 months, or, in the case of a Non-Resident Fellow, for twelve months, together with a 

 statement of the arrear, shall be reported to the Council by the Finance Committee, 

 and immediate notice of the same, with an account of such arrear, shall be forwarded 

 to each such Fellow, whose name shall have been so reported, at his last known address. 

 If the arrear be not paid within one calendar month, or, in the case of a Non-Resident 

 Fellow, within twelve calendar months from the date of such notice, or within such 

 further time as the Council may grant upon special cause to them shown, the name of 

 the Fellow so reported, together with a statement of the arrear, shall be suspended 

 in the Rooms of the Institute. If the arrear shall not be discharged within three 

 months after such suspension, the Council may remove the name of such Fellow from 

 the List of Fellows. 



Council. 



28. The President, two Vice-Presidents, or any four Councillors, may at any time 

 call a Special Meeting of the Council, and when such Meeting is to be held every Member 

 of the Council residing in the United Kingdom shall be summoned by notice specifying 

 the object thereof. 



29. In all Meetings of the Council five shall be a quorum ; and all questions shall 

 be decided by open vote, unless a ballot be demanded by any three Fellows present. 



30. Minutes of the proceedings of every Meeting of the Council shall be taken during 

 their progress, in a rough book, by the Secretary, or, in case of liis absence, by a Fellow 

 present, whom the President or Chairman shall appoint for the occasion ; they shall 

 be afterwards copied into a fair Minute-book to be kept for that purpose, read at the 

 next Meeting of the Council, and, when confirmed, signed by the President or Chairman. 



31. The Accounts of the 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, aa 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, Reading-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 eeem expedient, one or more Fellows as Corresponding 

 Secretary or Secretarieg, 



