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VIII. The Majority of the said Committee, present at any 

 Meeting thereof, shall be at liberty to call in to their Assistance, 

 at that, or any subsequent Meeting, any other Fellows of the 

 Society whom they may consider to be well skilled in any par- 

 ticular Branch of Science, which shall happen to be the Subject 

 Matter of any such Paper as shall be then to come under Deli- 

 beration ; and the Persons so called in to assist, although not 

 Members of the Committee, may give their Votes on all Papers 

 to be considered at any such Meeting, in the same Manner as 

 the Members of the said Committee may do. 



IX. At every Meeting of the Committee, the Method of pro- 

 ceeding upon the Papers to be considered shall be thus : The 

 first Entry m the Minute-Book of the Society, relating to any 

 Paper, upon which the Opinion of the Committee shall not have 

 been taken, shall be read ; and, if any Member should so desire, 

 the Paper itself shall be read, but otherwise only the Minute 

 relating thereto : after which the Question shall be put, Whether 

 that Paper shall be printed in the Transactions of the Society, 

 unless the Majority of the Committee should desire to ad- 

 journ the Consideration of it to a subsequent Meeting; and 

 the Question shall always be decided by Ballot : but if, upon any 

 Question of this Nature, the Number of Votes should be equal, 

 the further Consideration of the Question shall be adjourned to 

 the next Meeting of the Committee, and a Minute shall be made 

 for the taking of that Question into Consideration, at the next 

 Meeting of the Committee, before any other Business shall be 

 entered upon : The other Entries in the Minute-Book of the 

 Society shall be proceeded upon in like Manner, according to the 

 Order in which they shall respectively stand in the said Minute- 

 Book of the Society : And when, at the second balloting upon 

 the same Question, there shall still be an Equality of Votes, it 

 shall be determined in the Negative. 



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