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fident, three Vice-Prefidents, four Secretaries, three Cu3 
rators, one Treafurer, together with a Council of twelve 
Members; and that on the firft Friday of January next, 
between the hours of two and five in the afternoon, as 
many of the members of the faid Society as fhall have paid 
up their arrears due to the Society, and fhall declare their 
willingnefs to conform to the laws, regulations and ordi- 
nances of the Society, then duly in force, according to 
the tenor hereof, by fubfcribing the fame, and who fhall 
attend in the hall, or place of meeting of the faid Society, 
within the time aforefaid, fhall choofe by ballot, agreeably 
to the fundamental laws and regulations herein before re- 
ferred to, one Prefident, four Secretaries, three Curators, 
and one Treafurer, and at the fame time and place, the 
Members met and qualified as aforefaid, fhall in like man- 
ner choofe four Members for the Council, to hold their 
offices for one year, four more Members for the Council 
to hold their offices for two years, and four more Mem- 
bers for the Council to hold their offices for three years. 
And on the firft Friday in January, which fhall be in the 
year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and eighty- 
two, and fo likewife on the firft Friday of January, yearly 
and every year thereafter, between the hours of two and 
five in the afternoon, the Members of the faid Society met 
and qualified as aforefaid, fhall choofe one Prefident, three 
Vice-Prefidents, four Secretaries, three Curators and one 
Treafurer, to hold their refpective offices for one year ; 
and four Councilmen, to hold their offices for three years. 
Provided, That no perfon refiding within the United 
States fhall be capable of being Prefident, Vice-Prefident, 
Secretary, Treafurer, or Member of the Council, or of 
eleGting to any of the faid offices, who is not capable of 
electing and being elected to civil offices within the ftate 
in which he refides. Provided alfo, That nothing here- 
in contained, fhall be confidered as intended to exclude 
any of the faid officers or counfellors, whofe times fhall 
be 
