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CHAPTER IX. 



Of the Secretaries. 



I. THE Secretaries, or one of them, shall have inspection over the 

 Assistant Secretary ; and shall give the Orders and Directions con- 

 cerning the entering and writing of all minutes or matters in the 

 Journal-books of the Society or Council, or any other Books of the 

 Society ; and also concerning any orders or other writings for the use 

 and service of the Society. 



II. The Secretaries, or one of them, shall attend all meetings of 

 the Society, Council, and Committee of Papers ; where, when the 

 President has taken the Chair, one of the Secretaries shall read the 

 minutes, orders, and entries of the preceding meeting; and shall 

 afterwards take minutes of the business and orders of the present 

 meeting, to be entered by the Assistant Secretary in the respective 

 books to which they relate. 



III. At the meetings of the Society, Lists of the Presents made 

 from time to time to the Society shall be laid on the Table, by one of 

 the Secretaries, for the inspection of the Fellows ; and the Thanks of 

 the Society to the Donors shall be proposed from the Chair previously 

 to the reading of the first Paper. One of the Secretaries shall give 

 notice of any Candidate who stands proposed for election into the 

 Society at that meeting ; and the Secretaries shall read Letters and 

 Papers presented to the Society, in such manner as the President shall 

 direct. 



IV. The Secretaries shall draw up all letters to be written to any 

 persons in the name of the Society or Council (to be read and 

 approved of in some meeting of either respectively), except, for some 

 particular cause or consideration, some other person be appointed by 

 the Society or Council to draw up any such letter. They shall like- 

 wise have the charge (under the direction of the Committee of Papers) 

 of printing the Philosophical Transactions, the Proceedings, and other 

 publications of the Society. 



V. The letters relating to the business of the Society, received 

 during each Session, shall be arranged and kept in the apartments 

 of the Society. 



VI. The duty of the Secretary for Foreign Correspondence shall 

 be to receive and answer all letters from foreign parts relating to the 

 business of the Society, to return thanks for Presents from Foreigners 

 made to the Society, and to forward to persons elected Foreign Mem- 

 bers the Diplomas certifying their election into the Society. 



