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until the fame have been propofed at one meeting, and 
are agreed to by two-thirds of twenty or more Mem- 
bers prefent at a fubfequent meeting. 
XI. Of other Proceedings of the Society. 
No queftion fhall be put on a motion, unlefs the motion 
be /econded ; and the determination of any queftion fhall 
be by ballot, inftead of open fuffrage, if defired by any 
four Members. In cafe of an equality of votes on any 
queftion, the fame fhall be deferred to another meeting. 
When any Member fpeaks he fhall ftland up, and ad~ 
drefs himfelf to the chair, and the reft fhall remain filent 
in their feats). When two or more offer to fpeak at the 
fame time, the prefiding Member, in that, as in other 
matters of order, fhall regulate and determine who {hall 
fpeak firft. 
XII. Of Committees. 
The Members of this Society fhall be claffed into one 
or more of the following Committees. 
1. Geography, Mathematics, Natural Philofophy and 
Aftronomy. 
2. Medicine and Anatomy. 
. Natural Hiftory and Chemiftry. 
. Trade and Commerce. 
. Mechanics and Architecture. 
- Hufbandry and American Improvements. 
Thefe Committees fhall meet on their own adjournments, 
and at fuch other times as the Society fhall appoint, for 
the confideration of any matters referred to them, and 
fhall have power to chufe their own chairman. But no 
Committee, as fuch, fhall take up any new bufinefs of the 
Society, but fhall confine themfelves only to the fubyects 
for which they are appointed, and to matters referred to 
them by the Society. 
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