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Society, hereafter to be made. Provided always^ That no 

 statute, law, regulation, or ordinance shall ever be made or 

 passed by the said Society, or be binding upon the members 

 thereof, or any of them, unless the same hath been duly pro- 

 posed, and fairly drawn up in writing at one stated meeting 

 of the Society, and enacted or passed at a subsequent meeting, 

 at least the space of fourteen days after the former meeting, 

 and upon due notice in some of the public newspapers 

 that the enacting of statutes and laws, or the making and 

 passing ordinances and regulations, will be part of the busi- 

 ness of such meeting ; nor shall any statute, law, regulation, or 

 ordinance be then or at any time enacted or passed, unless 

 thirteen members of the said Society, or such greater number 

 of members as may be afterwards fixed by the rules of this 

 Society, be present, besides such quorum of the officers and 

 council as the laws of the Society for the time being may re- 

 quire, and unless the same be voted by two-thirds of the whole 

 body then present ; all which statutes, laws, ordinances and 

 regulations, so as aforesaid duly made, enacted, and passed, 

 shall be binding upon every member of the said Society, and 

 be from time to time inviolably observed, according to the 

 tenor and efi'ect thereof; provided they be not repugnant or 

 contrary to the laws of this Commonwealth, for the time 

 being in force and effect. 



And whereas, nations truly civilized (however unhappily at 

 variance on other accounts) will never wage war with the arts 

 and sciences and the common interests of humanity ; 



Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. That it 

 shall and may be lawful for the said Society by their proper 

 officers, at all times, whether in peace or in war, to correspond 

 with learned Societies, as well as individual learned men, of 

 any nation or country, upon matters merely belonging to the 

 business of the said Society; such as the mutual communica- 

 tion of their discoveries and proceedings in philosophy and 

 science ; the procuring books, apparatus, natural curiosities, 

 and such other articles and intelligence as are usually ex- 

 changed between learned bodies for furthering their common 



PROC. AMER. PHILOS. SOC. XXVII. 131. K. PRINTED JAN. 31, 1890. 



