1885.] °^>3 



That chapter I, Section 13, be struck out. 



That Chapter VII, Section 1, shall read as follows : 

 "The Officers and Council shall meet together statedly on the second 

 Friday of February, May and November, respectively, at the same hour 

 in the evening at which the stated meetings of the Society are appointed 

 to be held, and specially at such times as they may judge proper." 



That Chapter VIII, Section 5, shall read as follows : 



" He shall give notice of the meetings of the Society and of the Officers 

 and Council, and of all elections, and shall make all such publications on 

 behalf of the Society as are not otherwise devolved by law or special 

 order." 



That Chapter IX, Section 1, shall read as follows : 

 "The ordinary meetings of the Society shall be on the first and third 

 Fridays of every month from September to June at 8 o'clock in the 

 evening. Special meetings may be called at any time by order of the 

 President, or in case of his absence or disability, by order of a Vice- 

 President. And it shall not be lawful to take up, consider or transact at 

 such special meeting any business other than that which is specified in the 

 call and the notice for the meeting. And no business shall be taken up, 

 considered or transacted at such special meeting, except by such number 

 of qualified voters as would be requisite for a quorum, according to the 

 Laws and Kegulations of the Society." 



That Chapter IX, Section 2, shall read as follows : 



"The Chair shall be taken by the presiding member at the hour 

 appointed for the meeting." 



That Chapter IX, Section 6, shall read as follows : 



"The Hall of the Society shall be open on every stated meeting at 

 half-past seven o'clock in the evening." 



That the item " stated business of the meeting " in the Rules 

 of Order (p. 19, Edition 1866) shall be transposed so as to im- 

 mediately follow " Obituary notices of members read and 

 announcements of the decease of members made and acted 

 on ;" and that the numbers prefixed to the respective items in 

 the said order of business be altered to correspond with the 

 said change. 



That Section 12 of the said Eules of Order (p. 20, Edition 

 1866) be struck out and the following section be numbered 12. 



Mr. Phillips presented a list, which he had prepared, of 

 Officers and Councilors of the Society from 1769 to 1886, 

 which was ordered to be printed. 



