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31. Each Member shall pay ten shillings on admission to the 
Society, and ten shillings as an Annual Subscription, which shall 
become due on the first of January in each year; and shall be paid in 
advance. 
]2. Donors of Ten Guineas or upwards shall be Members for life. 
13. At General Meetings of the Society the Committee may 
recommend persons to be ballotted for as Honorary or Corresponding 
Members. 
14. When any office shall become vacant, or any new appointment 
shall be requisite, the Committee shall have power to fill up the same; 
such appointments shall remain in force only till the next General 
Meeting, when they shall be either confirmed or annulled. 
.15. The Treasurer shall receive all Subseriptions and Donations 
made to the Society, and shall pay all accounts passed by the Com- 
mittee; he shall keep a book of receipts and payments, which he shall 
produce whenever the Committee shall require it; the Accounts shall 
be audited previously to the Anniversary Meeting, by two Members 
of the Committee chosen for that purpose, and an abstract of them 
shall be read at that Meeting. 
16. No change shall be made in the Laws of the Society except at 
a General or Special Meeting, at which twelve Members at least shall 
be present. —Of the proposed change a month’s notice shall be given 
to the Secretaries, who shall communicate the same to each Member 
three weeks before the Meeting. 
17. Papers read at Meetings of the Society, and eonsidered by the 
Committee of sufhieient interest for publication, shall be forwarded 
(with the Author’s consent) to such Periodical as shall be determined 
by the Committee to be the best for the purpose, with a request that 
a number of such papers may be printed separately, for distribution 
to the Members of the Society, either gratuitously or for such pay- 
ment as may be agreed on. 
18. No religious or political discussions shall be permitted at 
Meetings of the Society. 
19. That any person contributing Books or Speeimens to the 
Museum shall be at liberty to resume possession of them in the event 
of the property of the Society ever being sold or transferred to any 
other county. Also persons shall have liberty to deposit Books or 
Specimens for a specific time only. 
N.B. One of the objects of the Society shall be to colleet, by 
donation or purchase, a Library and Museum, more particularly 
illustrating the History, Natural, Civil, and Ecclesiastical, of the 
County oi Somerset. 
”,* It is requested that Contributions to the Museum or 
Library, be sent to the Curator, at the Society’s rooms, Taunton. 
