xxii Bye-Laws of the Linnean Society. 



Money on the Treasurer's behalf, who, upon the Delivery of the 

 Receipt to the Fellow paying, is to enter upon that Part of the 

 Check which shall be left in the Book the above Particulars, and 

 also the Day of Payment. 



VII. The Treasurer shall demand the Annual Contributions, or 

 cause them to be demanded, of such Persons as shall neglect to 

 make their Payments for Six Months after they become due. 



VIII. The Accounts of the Treasurer shall be audited an- 

 nually, a short Time preceding the Anniversary Meeting, by a 

 Committee consisting of Five Members of the Council, of whom 

 the President and the Secretary to be Two, and of Three Fellows 

 of the Society not Members of the Council, Avho are to be nomi- 

 nated by the President and approved by the Majority of the 

 Fellows present, such Approval to be determined by Ballot at 

 One of the Two next preceding General Meetings ; any Three or 

 more of the said Five Members of the Council, whereof the 

 President and Secretary shall be Two, together with any Two or 

 more of the said Three Fellows, to be a Quorum of the said Com- 

 mittee. The Members of the said Committee who may be of the 

 Council shall make their Report to the Council which shall be 

 held next after such Audit, on or before the Day of the Anni- 

 versary Elections ; and shall, together with the Members of the 

 said Committee who may not be of the Council, make their Report 

 to the Society upon the Day of the Anniversary Meeting, stating 

 not only the Balance in the Treasurer's Hands, but also the 

 general State of the Funds of the Society. 



IX. The Treasurer shall take care that all Writings relating to 

 the Society's Funds and Property, the Bonds given by the Fel- 

 lows, the Policies of Insurance, and other Securities, be lodged 

 in the Society's Iron Chest. 



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