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shall be, to road and hear Letters, Reports, and other Papers, on 

 Subjects of Natural History ; and also to view such Speciuiens of 

 the Productions of Nature as shall be presented. 



VII. "Whenever, at a Greneral Meeting, the Votes, for and 

 against a Question proposed, shall be found to be equal, in case 

 the Question do not relate to an Election, or other Matter par- 

 ticularly provided for in this respect by the Charter or Bye-Laws, 

 the President, Vice-President, or Members of the Council in the 

 Chair, shall have a double Vote. 



CHAPTER XIV. 



Oftlie Meetings of the Council. 



Sect. I. The Council shall meet at such Times as shall be ap- 

 pointed by the President, or, in his Absence, by one of the Vice- 

 Presidents ; due and sufficient Notice of each Meeting being pre- 

 viously sent to every Member of the Council. 



II. The President, or one of the Vice-Presidents, shall preside 

 at every Meeting of the Council. 



III. AVhen the Chair shall have been taken, the Minutes of the 

 preceding Meeting of Council shall be read, and, if approved by 

 the Members present, sliall be signed, in the fair Minute-Book, by 

 the President or Vice-President in the Chair. 



IV. When any question shall be agitated at a Meeting of the 

 Council, it shall be determined by open Vote, unless Two or more 

 Members of the Meeting demand a Ballot ; and if there should be 

 an Equality of Votes in either Case, the President, or Vice- 

 President in the Chair, shall have a double Vote. It is however 

 declared, that all Questions relative to Elections, or to the making 

 or repealing of Bye-Laws, shall be determined by Ballot. 



V. When a Question shall have been determined upon in 

 Council, which, agreeably to the Charter, must necessarily be 

 approved of by the Fellows at large, the Resolution of the Council 

 upon such Question, signed by the President, or Vice-President 

 who may have presided at the Time, and by the Secretary, shall 

 be read from the Chair, at the next General Meeting of the 

 Society. 



VI. The Papers read at the Meetings of tlie Society shall be 

 referred to the Council, who shall determine respecting their 

 Publication ; and the Council shall have power to refer them to 

 be reported upon, to any competent' Person, although he may not 



