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than five of the other Directors, and that the Chief Justice and 
the Members of His Majesty’s Executive Council for the time 
shall be President and Vice Presidents of the Society, without 
the presence of one or more of whom such General Board cannot 
be held or business transacted. 
5th—The General Board of Directors shall, by the Secretary and 
Treasurer, make regular entries of their proceedings, and state- 
ments of their Receipts and Disbursements, in Books to be kept 
for that purpose, in order that the same be occasionally Pub- 
lished and submitted to the inspection of the Subscribers. And 
to facilitate the objects of the Society, the said Board shall 
appoint Committees of their own Members residing in the dif- 
ferent Districts, who may apply to the relief of cases of Dis- 
tricts arising therein, the whole amount of the Subscriptions 
obtained in such Districts, except three per cent on the said 
amount, to be appropriated by the Directors towards effecting 
the third object of the Society; and that the said Committee 
shall from time to time transmit to the Secretary of the General 
Board at York, an account of their proceedings and expenditures, 
that unity may be preserved in the Society throughout the Pro- 
vince, and a full Statement of its Transactions may be prepared 
for the satisfaction of all the Subscribers and the Public at 
large. 
6th. That the respective Sums at first to be Subscribed shall be con- 
sidered the Sum to be paid annually by each Subscriber during 
the continuance of the Society, (unless in cases of leaving the 
Province or some material alteration in the circumstances of 
the Subscriber), and shall for the present year, be paid within 
one Month after the Subscription, and in the following years, 
at such periods as the General Board of Directors shall appoint, 
in order to enable the Board to provide Supplies, best adapted 
for Relief of Distress, on the most advantageous Terms. And 
that the Money accruing from such Subscriptions, shall be con- 
sidered as constituting the Funds for the purposes of the Society. 
tth.—That exclusive of the Annual Subscription, the Society will accept 
of Donations of any extent whatsoever from those who may ot 
choose to become Annual Subscribers or Members of the Society, 
and the Names of such Benefactors and the sums they have given, 
shall be Published Quarterly in the York “ Gazette.” 
8th.—And whereas it is the opinion of this Society, that no personal 
Merit whatever in Military Service, can compensate for insub- 
ordination and breach of Discipline, it is hereby particularly 
