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expired, from being re-elected, according to the pleafure 
of the faid Society ; and of the day, hours, and place of 
all fuch elections, due notice fhall be given by the Secre- 
taries, or fome one of them, in one or more of the pub= 
lic news-papers of this ftate, agreeably to the faid funda- 
mental laws and regulations before referred to. 
And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, 
That the officers and council of the faid Society fhall be 
capable of exercifing fuch power for the well governing 
and ordering the affairs of the Society, and of holding 
fuch occafional meetings for that purpofe, as fhall be de- 
fcribed, fixed, and determined by the ftatutes, laws, regu- 
lations and ordinances of the faid Society, hereafter to be 
made. Provided always, That no ftatute, law, regulati- 
on or ordinance fhall ever be made or pafled by the faid 
Society, or be binding upon the Members thereof, or any 
of them, unlefs the fame hath been duly propofed, and 
fairly drawn up in writing, at one ftated meeting of the 
Society, and enacted or paffed at a fubfequent meeting at 
leaft the {pace of fourteen days after the former meeting, 
and upon due notice in fome of the public news-papers, 
that the enacting of ftatutes and laws, or the making and. 
pafling ordinances and regulations, will be part of the bu- 
finefs of fuch meeting; nor fhall any ftatute, law, regu- 
Jation or ordinance be then or at any time enacted or paf- 
fed, unlefs thirteen Members of the faid Society or fuch 
greater number of Members as may be afterwards fixed. 
by the rules of the Society be prefent, befides fuch quo- 
rum of the officers and council as the laws. of the Society 
for the time being may require, and unlefs the fame be 
voted by two-thirds of the whole body then prefent ; all 
which ftatutes, laws, ordinances and regulations fo as 
aforefaid duly made, enacted and pafled, fhall be binding 
upon every Member of the faid Society, and be from time: 
to time inviolably obferved, according to the tenor and 
effect thereof; provided they be not repugnant or con- 
trary 
