xxx Bye-Laws of the Linncan Society. 



II. The President, or one of the Vice-Presidents, shall preside 

 at every Meeting of the Council. 



III. When the Chair shall have been taken, the Minutes of the 

 preceding Meeting of Council shall be read, and, if approved by 

 the Members present, shall be signed, in the fair Minute-Book, 

 b) r the President, or Vice-President in the Chair. 



IV. When any Question shall be agitated at a Meeting of the 

 Council, it shall be determined by open Vote, unless Two or 

 more Members of the Meeting demand a Ballot ; and if there 

 should be an Equality of Votes in either Case, the President, or 

 Vice-President in the Chair, shall have a double Vote. It is 

 however declared, that all Questions relative to Elections, or to 

 the making or repealing of Bye-Laws, shall be determined by 

 Ballot. 



V. When a Question shall have been determined upon in 

 Council, which, agreeably to the Charter, must necessarily be ap- 

 proved of by the Fellows at large, the Resolution of the Council 

 upon such Question, signed by the President, or Vice-President 

 who may have presided at the Time, and by the Secretary, shall 

 be read from the Chair, at the next General Meeting of the 

 Society. 



VI. Besides the Business which may, from Time to Time, be 

 laid before the Council, agreeably to the Directions contained in 

 the Charter, the Members of the Council, for the Time being, 

 shall constitute and form a standing Committee of the Society, 

 to whom the Consideration of the Publication of such Papers, as 

 shall have been read before, or communicated to them at their 

 General Meetings, shall, from Time to Time, be referred. 



VII. No less Number than Three of the Members of the said 

 Committee (of which Number the President, or, in his absence, 

 a Vice-President, always to be one) shall be a Quorum, capable 

 of acting in relation to the said Papers. 



VIII. The 



