Statutes of the Royal Society. 



493 



CHAPTER X. 



Of the Assistant Secretary. 



I. THE person who shall be chosen to the office of Assistant 

 Secretary, shall either not be a Fellow of the Society, or, if a Fellow, 

 shall cease to be so, upon his election to and acceptance of that office. 



II. The appointment of a person to the office of Assistant Secre- 

 tary shall be by the Council, to whom the Officer so appointed shall 

 give security, at the discretion of the Council ; and he shall reside in 

 the Society's House. 



III. The Assistant Secretary shall be paid for his services, 

 according to the determination of the Council ; and shall not, besides 

 such payments, receive any perquisite or profit whatsoever without 

 the express permission of the President and Council. He shall be 

 subject to such Rules and Orders as shall from time to time be made 

 or given by the President and Council; and he shall constantly 

 be in attendance during all meetings of the Society, Council, and 

 Committees. 



IV. He shall enter all the Minutes in the several Journal-books, 

 and make an Index to every such book : he shall lay before every 

 Council their fair Minute-book : and before every Committee of 

 Papers the Society's Journal-book, to show that the several entries 

 are fairly made : and he shall have the care of the writing of all 

 Summonses of the Society, Council, and Committees. 



V. He shall, under the direction of the Secretaries, have the 

 charge and custody of the Charter-book, Statute-book, Journal-books 

 of the Society and Council, Register-books, and Letter-books, as also 

 of all Papers and writings belonging to the Society ; all which shall 

 be kept in the House of the Society, that they may be in readiness to 

 be produced at any meetings of the Society or Council, as the case 

 may require, or as shall be ordered by the Society, Council, or 

 President. 



VI. He shall not suffer any person, not being a Fellow of the 

 Society, to read any Journal-book, Record, or Writing, or any part 

 thereof, belonging to the Society ; nor give any copy thereof, nor 

 in any way communicate anything contained therein, to any such 

 person. 



VII. He shall follow the directions which may be given him from 

 time to time by the Treasurer in respect of that part of his duties 

 which relates to the Accounts or Cash Transactions of the Society. 

 He shall enter in a Book, to be provided by the Treasurer, all such 

 sums as he may receive on account of the Society at the instant of 

 receiving such sums ; and for these sums, so entered by him, he shall 

 be answerable, until he shall have paid them to the Treasurer. 



