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Council shall consist of Fifteen Members, to be elected from 

 among tbe Fellows, as hereinafter directed, whereof any Five shall 5 of whom to 

 be a Quorum : And We do hereby nominate and appoint the said ^° * Ql^^"^""?- 

 George Earl oi Dartmouth, James JEdward Smith, Thomas Marsham, named. 

 Alexander MacLeay, Jonas Dryander, Samuel Goodenough, Aylmer 

 Bourlce Lavibert, Richard Anthony Salisbury, William George 

 Maton, Thomas Farley Forster, Charles Hatchett, William Leicis, 

 Thomas Backett, John Symmons, and Thomas Young, to be the first 

 Council ; the said James Edward Smith, to be the first President ; First Presideut 

 the said Thomas Marsham, to be the first Treasurer ; and tlie said -p||.gj. ^^^^^^^ 

 Alexander MacLeay, to be the first Secretary, to the said Society : tary. 

 All and each of the aforesaid Officers and Counsellors to continue office" ill*^^ "' 

 in such their respective Offices until the Twenty-fourth Day of 24th of May, 

 May One thousand eight hundred and three ; and that the said 

 James Fdward Smith shall have Power to appoint such Four The First Pre- 

 Persons, from and amongst the Members of the said Council, to be point 4 Mem- 

 Vice-Presidents of the said Society, as he shall think fit, until some bers of the 

 other Persons shall be chosen in their respective Rooms, in the ^^ be Vice- 

 Manner hereinafter mentioned. And it is Our further Will and Presidents. 

 Pleasure, that the Fellows of the said Society, or any Twenty-one TheFellows or 

 or more of them, shall and may, on the Twenty-fourth Day of May, a"y '-1 or more 

 One thousand eight hundred and three, and also shall and may, on 24th of May 

 the Twenty-fourth Day of May in every succeeding Tear, unless the 1803, and 

 same shall happen to be on a Sunday, and then on the Day follow- afteVshaU by 

 ing, assemble together at the then last, or other usual Place of Ballot, remoTo 

 meeting of the said Society, and proceed, by Method of Ballot^ die Couifcil for 

 to put out and amove any Five of the Mtoibers who shall have the.preceding 

 composed the Council of the preceding Year; and shall and may, pfy'^'fi p j! 

 in like Manner, by Method of Ballot, elect Five other discreet lows in their 

 Persons from amongst the Fellows of the said Society, to supply ^^^ » 

 the Places and Offices of such Five as may have been so put out 

 and amoved ; it being Our Eoyal' Will and Pleasure, that One- 

 third of the Members of the said Council, and no more, shall be 

 annually changed and removed by the Fellows of the said Society : 

 And, also, that they, the said Fellows, or any Twenty-one or more and shall elect 

 of them, shall and may, at the Time and Place, and in Manner from amongst 

 aforesaid, by Method of Ballot, elect, from among the Members President, 

 of the said Council, when formed and elected, in Manner afore- Treasurer, and 



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said, Three fit and proper Persons, one of such Persons to be the Year en- 

 President, another of such Persons to be Treasurer, and the other suing- 

 of such Persons to be Secretary of the said Society, for the Tear 

 ensuing ; And also, in like Manner, shall and may, in case of the 



