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able, said surplus shall be used by the Society for making publication 

 of the terms of the said premium, and for the addition, to the said pre- 

 mium, of such amount as the Society may from time to time think 

 suitable, or for the institution of other premiums. 



The treasurer shall, at the first stated meeting of the Society in the 

 month of December annually, make a report of the state of said fund 

 and of the investment thereof. 



CHAPTER XIII. 



OF THE LAWS OF THE SOCIETY. 



Section 1. No statute, law, regulation, or ordinance shall ever be 

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

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

 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 

 business of such meeting. 



2. Nor shall any statute, law, regulation or ordinance be then, or 

 at any time, enacted or passed, unless thirteen members of the Society 

 be present in addition to the quorum of the officers and council; nor 

 unless the same be voted by two-thirds of the whole body then present. 



3. The laws contained in the thirteen foregoing chapters, shall be 

 in force from and after the time of their adoption by the Society; and 

 thereafter all other laws, regulations and ordinances heretofore passed 

 or made by the Society, shall be and the same are hereby repealed. 



