iv Charter of the Linnean Society. 



Forster, Charles Hatchett, William Lezvis, Thomas Rackett, John 

 First Piesi- Symmons, and ThomasYoung, to be the first Council; the said James 

 i-iretTrca- Edward Smith, to be the first President ; the s&iAThomasMarsham, 

 First Secre- to be the first Treasurer; and the said A lexander M c Leay, to be the 

 To continue first Secretary, to the said Society: All and each of the aforesaid 

 24th ot'Way, Officers and Counsellors to continue in such their respective Offices 

 until the Twenty-fourth Day of May One thousand eight hundred 

 Mdcnfto Tp- C a "d three; and that the said James Edward Smith shall have Power 

 £er"of the '"" t° appoint such Four Persons, from and amongst the Members of the 

 tobevlce^ sa *°- Council, to be Vice-Presidents of the said Society, as he shall 

 Presidents. x\\mk fit, until some other Persons shall be chosen in their re- 

 spective Rooms, in the Manner hereinafter mentioned. And it is 

 oranv2ior' Our further Will and Pleasure, that the Fellows of the said 

 on the 24th of Society, or any Twenty-one or more of them, shall and ma}', on 

 and y 5 eariy the Twenty-fourth Day of May, One thousand eight hundred and 

 shaiitVBai- three, and also shall and may, on the Twenty-fourth Day of May 

 Wembe"^ 5 in every succeeding Year, unless the same shall happen to be on 

 for the"" e- a Sunday, and then on the Day following, assemble together at 

 andefectlpwe the then last, or other usual Place of meeting of the said Society, 

 tetheirRoom- an d P roce ed, by Method of Ballot, to put out and amove any 

 Five of the Members who shall have composed the Council of the 

 preceding Year; and shall and may, in like Manner, by Method 

 of Ballot, elect Five other discreet Persons from amongst the 

 Fellows of the said Society, to supply the Places and Offices of 

 such Five as may have been so put out and amoved ; it being Our 

 Royal Will and Pleasure, that One-third of the Members of the 

 said Council, and no more, shall be annually changed and re- 

 an< i shall elect moved by the Fellows of the said Society : And, also, that they, 

 t™cZaU the said Fellows, or any Twenty-one or more of them, shall and 

 tJS^tct & ma .y> at the Time and Place, and in Manner aforesaid, by Method 

 Secretary for f ]3 a u t 5 elect, from among the Members of the said Council, 



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