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L A'W S. 
Commerce, and the Arts. But that Religion, the 
Pradtical Branches of Phyfic, and Britifh Politics, be 
deemed prohibited ; and that the Chairman fhall deliver 
his Veto, whenever they are introduced. 
IX- That each Member, wlTo (hall favour the Society 
with any intending fads and obfervations, refpeding 
Philof. phy, Polite Literature, &c. which may occur to 
him, either from refleftion, experiment, reading, or 
corrcfpoiidence, fhall fend his paper to one of the 
Secretaries, the Monday before the meeting of the 
Society. 
X. That the Secretary, to whom the paper fhall be 
delivered, fhall, with the approbation of one Prefident, 
or two Vice-Prefidcnts, have the power of fufpending 
the recital of it, if deemed improper to be read, until 
the pleafure of the Committee of Papers be known, a 
meeting of which fhall be called by the Secretary to 
infpeait: And, if the Committee difapprove of its 
being introduced to the Society, they fhall be empower¬ 
ed to reject it. 
XL That all papers which fhall be delivered to the 
Secretary, and not prohibited as above, fhall be read 
by him, or the author, according to the order of fuc- 
ceffion in which they were prefented. 
XII. That each paper fhall be read to the Society 
without interruption; and that more than thirty minutes 
fhall not be allowed to the reading of any Angle paper: 
]f m ore time be required in the delivery of it, the 
remainder fhall, except the Society determine otherwife, 
be deferred to the fucceeding evening. No paper, 
however, fhall engage more than two evenings, with¬ 
out the confent of the Society expreffed by a ballot. 
XIII. That a fecond paper fhall not be read, before 
the fubjed of the former one has been difeuffed. 
