490 Appendix. 



X, For electing any Member of the Council, or any Officer to be 

 elected by tlie Society, upon such vacancies as shall happen in the 

 intervals of the Anniversary Elections, the summons for such Elec- 

 tion, and the proceedings in. it, shall be after the same manner as is 

 directed for the Anniversary Election. 



XI. Upon any vacancy of the President's place, occurring in the 

 intervals of the Anniversary Elections, the Treasurer, or, in his 

 absence, one of the Secretaries, shall cause the Council to be sum- 

 moned for the Election of a new President : and the Council meeting 

 thereupon in the usual place, or any eleven or more of them, shall 

 proceed to the said Election, and not separate until the major part of 

 them shall have agreed upon a new President. 



CHAPTER VII. 



Of the President. 



I. THE business of the President shall be to preside at all the 

 meetings, and regulate all the debates, of the Society, Council, and 

 Committees ; to state and put questions both in the affirmative and 

 negative, according to the sense and intention of the meetings ; to call 

 for reports and accounts from Committees, and others ; to check 

 irregularities, and to keep all persons to order ; to summon all 

 Meetings of the Council, and Committee of Papers ; and to execute, 

 or see to the execution of, the Statutes of the Society. 



II. The President shall take precedence of every Fellow of the 

 Society, at their ordinary place of meeting ; and also in all other 

 places, where any number of the Fellows meet as a Society, Council, 

 or Committee. 



III. In the absence of the President, one of the Vice- Presidents 

 shall act as his deputy, and may do, in the absence of the President, 

 the same acts as the President himself could do if present. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Of the Treasurer and his Accounts. 



I. THE Treasurer, or some person appointed by him, shall receive 

 for the use of the Society, all sums of money due or payable to the 

 Society ; and shall pay and disburse all sums due from or payable by 

 the Society ; and shall keep particular Accounts of all such receipts 

 and payments. 



II. Every sum of money payable on account of the Society, 

 exceeding Ten Pounds, shall be paid only by order of the Council ; 

 but payments for rates or taxes, to any amount, may be made by 



