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le. TJ Xi E s . 

 I.— This Society shall be called " The WiUikire Archceological and Natural Bitttry Soeitty." 

 Its object shall be 



1. To collect and publish information— 



On the Antiquities of Wiltshire ; including Ancient Monuments, Architecture, Manorial History, 

 Ecclesiastical History and Endowments, Records ; and all other matters usually comprised under the 

 name of ArchoBology. 



On the Natural History of the County ; its Geology, Botany, Ornithology, &c. 



2. To preserve, by the formation of a Library and Museum, illustrations of its History ; viz., 

 published works, manuscripts, drawings, models, and specimens, &c. 



II. — The Society shall consist of a Patron ; a President, elected for three years ; Vice-Presidents ; 

 general and district or local Secretaries ; and a Treasurer elected at each Anniversary Meeting ; 

 with a Committee of twehe, sis of whom shall go out annually by rotation, but may be re-elected. 

 No person shall be elected on the Committee until he shall have been six months a Member of the 

 Society, 



III. — Anniversary General Jleetings shall be held for the purpose of electing the Officers, of re- 

 ceiving the report of the Committee for the past year, of reading papers and reports, and of 

 transacting all other necessary business, at such time and place as the Committee shall appoint, of 

 ■which meeting a fortnight's notice shall be given to the Members. 



IV. — Members shall have the privilege of introducing friends to all Meetings of the Society, in 

 such numbers and on such terms as the Committee for the time being may fix at a preliminary 

 meeting. 



V. — The Committee is empowered to call Special General Meetings of the Society, upon receiving 

 a requisition signed by ten Jlembers. Three weeks' notice of such Special Meeting, and its object 

 shall be given to each Member. 



VI. — The property of the Society shall be deposited at Devizes, and shall be vested in thirteen 

 Trustees, in trust, for the purposes of the Society ; and shall not be disposed of or made applicable 

 for anj" other purpose, except with the consent of five-sixths of the subscribers ; and shall not be 

 disposed of or severed, so long as any Society exists in the county, having in view objects similar to 

 those of this Society ; and whenever the number of the Trustees shall be reduced to five, the 

 vacancies shall be supplied at a general meeting. 



VII. — The affairs of the Society shall be directed by the Committee (of which the Officers shall be 

 ex-offlcio members), who shall have the management and application of the funds of the Society ; 

 and meetings of the Committee shall be held monthly, or quarterly, as may be found expedient, for 

 receiving reports from the Secretaries and Sub-Committees, and for transacting other necessary 

 business : three of the Committee shall he a quorum ; Members may attend the Committee Meetings 

 after the official business has been transacted. 



VIII.— The Chairman at Meetings of the Society shall have a casting vote, in addition to his vote 

 as a Member. 



IX.— One (at least) of the Secretaries shall attend each Meeting, and shall keep a record of its 

 proceedings All manuscripts and communications, and the other property of the Society, shall be 

 under the charge of the Secretaries. 



X.— Candidates lor admission as Members, shall be proposed by two Members at any of the 

 General or Committee Meetings, and the election shall be detennined by ballot at the next Com- 

 mittee or General Meeting ; three-fourths of the Members present, balloting, shall elect. The Rules 

 of the Society shaU be subscribed by every person becoming a Member. 



XI.— Ladies shall be eligible as Members of the Society, without ballot, being proposed by two 

 Members, and approved by the majority of the Meeting. 



XII. — Each Member shall pay Ten Shillings and Sixpence on admission to the Society ; and Ten 

 Shillings and Sixpence as an Annual Subsctiption, which shall become due on the first of January 

 in each year, and shall be paid in advance. 



XIII. — Donors of Ten Guineas, or upwards, shall be Members for Life. 



XIV.— At General Meetings of the Society, the Committee may recommend persons eminent for 

 their literary, or scientific acquirements, to be balloted for as Honorary, or Corresponding Mem- 

 bers. 



XV. — When any office shall become vacant, or any appointment shall be requisite, the Committee 

 shall have power to fill up the same ; such appointments shall remain in force only to the next 

 General Meeting, when they shall be either confirmed or annulled. 



X'VI. — The Treasurer shall receive all subscriptions and donations made to the Society, and shall 

 pay all accounts passed by the Committee : he shall keep a book of receipts and payments, which 

 he shall produce whenever the Committee shall require it : the accounts shall be audited pre\iously 

 to the Anniversary Meeting, by two Members of the Committee chosen for that purpose, and an 

 abstract of them shall be read at the Meeting. 



XVII.— No change shall be made in the laws of the Society, except at a General or Special 

 Meeting, at which twelve Members, at least, shall be present Of the proposed change a month's 

 notice shall be given to the Secretaries, who shall communicate the same to each Member three 

 weeks before the Meeting. 



XVIII.— Papers read at Meetings of the Society, and considered by the Committee of sufficient 

 interest for publication, will be printed (with the author's consent), in such manner as shall be deter- 

 mined by the Committee to be the best for the purpose, for gratutious distribution, or otherwise, 

 to the Members of the Society ; and for such price to the public as may be agreed upon. 



XIX — No religious or political discussions shall be permitted at Meetings of the Society ; nor any 

 topics of a similar nature admitted into the Society's publications. 



XX. — That any person contributing books, or specimens, to the Museum, shall be at liberty to re- 

 sume possession of them, in the event of the property of the Society ever being sold, or transferred, 

 otherwise than to any similar society in the coimty Also persons shall have liberty to deposit 

 books, or specimens, for a specific time only. 



