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Meeting, stating not only the Balance in the Treasurer's Hands, 

 but also the general State of the Punda of the Society. 



VIII. The Treasurer shall take care that all "Writings relating 

 to the Society's Funds and Property, the Obligations given by the 

 Fellows, the Policies of Insurance, and other Securities, be lodged 

 in the Society's Iron Chest, and be inspected by the Council once 

 in every Tear. 



IX. The Society shall not, and may not, make any Dividend, 

 Grift, Division, or Bonus in Money, unto or between any of its 

 Members. 



CHAPTEE XI. 



Of the Secretaries. 



Sect. I. There shall be Two Secretaries, and, so far as may be 

 practicable, the Duties of one of them shall be devoted to the 

 Zoological, and of the other to the Botanical Proceedings of the 

 Society. 



II. The Secretaries, or either of them, shall have Inspection 

 over the Librarian, and other Salaried Officers and Servants of the 

 Society. They shall, subject to the Direction of the Council, have 

 the general Management of the Business of the Society, and 

 conduct its Correspondence. 



III. The Editing and Printing of the Society's Transactions 

 shall be entrusted to the Secretaries respectively ; each taking 

 charge of the Papers belonging to his own Department. 



CHAPTEE XII. 



Of the Librarian and other Salaried Officers. 



Sect. I. The Council shall, from Time to Time, appoint such 

 Librarian, Clerk, or other Salaried Officers as they may deem 

 necessary for the Transaction of the Business of the Society ; 

 provided that the position of the present Librarian, elected by the 

 Society, be not thereby affected. 



II. The Librarian shall receive such Salary and Allowances as 

 the Council may judge reasonable ; and shall not, under Pain of 

 Dismissal, receive any Perquisite, or Profit whatever, ai'ising from 

 bis Connexion with the Society, excepting that which shall be 

 expressly allowed by the Council, and shall be subject to such 

 Eules and Orders as shall, from Time to Time, be given to him by 

 the President and Council. 



III. The Librarian shall have, under the Authority of the 



