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them, in one or more of the public newspapers of this State, agreeably 

 to the said Fundamental Laws and Regulations before referred to. 



And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. That the 

 Officers and Council of the said Society shall be capable of exercising 

 such power for the well governing and ordering the affairs of the 

 Society, and of holding such occasional meetings for that purpose, as 

 shall be described, fixed and determined, by the statutes, laws, regu- 

 lations and ordinances of the said Society, hereafter to be made. Pro- 

 vided always. That no statute, law, regulation or ordinance shall ever 

 be made or passed by the said Society, or be binding upon the mem- 

 bers 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; 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 require, 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 effect thereof; 

 provided they be not repugnant or contrary to the laws of this Com- 

 monwealth, 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 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 communication of their discoveries and proceedings in phi- 

 losophy and science; the procuring books, apparatus, natural curiosi- 

 ties, and such other articles and intelligence as are usually exchanged 

 between learned bodies for furthering their common pursuits. Pro- 

 vided always, That such correspondence of the said Society be at all 



