12 RECORD OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY 



4 Concerning the Officers and Servants of the Society. 



'The standing Officers of this Society to be three, that is to say, a 

 President or Director, a Treasurer, and a Register. The President to be 

 chosen monthly. 



' The Treasurer to continue one yeare, as also the Register. 



'That there be likewise two servants belonging to this Society, an 

 Amanuensis, and an Operator. 



'That the Treasurer doe every quarter give in an account of the Stock 

 in his hand, and all disbursements made to the President or Director, and 

 any three others to be appointed by the Society : who are to report it to 

 the Society. 



'That any bill of charges brought in by the Amanuensis and Operator, 

 and subscribed by the President and Register for any experiment made, and 

 subscribed by the Curators of the experiment, or the major part of them, be 

 a sufficient warrant to the Treasurer for the payment of that sum. 



' That the Register provide three bookes, one for the statutes and names 

 of the Society, another for experiments and the result of debates : and a third 

 for occasionall orders. 



' That the salary of the Amanuensis be 4>OL per annum, and his pay for 

 particular business at the ordinary rate, either by the sheet or otherwise, as 

 the President and Register can best agree with him. 



' That the salary of the Operator be foure pounds by the yeare, and for any 

 other service, as the Curators who employ him shall judge reasonable. 



' That at every meeting, three or more of the Society be desired that they 

 would please to be reporters for that meeting, to sitt at table with the 

 Register and take notes of all that shall be materially offered to the Society 

 and debated in it, who together may form a report against the next meeting 

 to be filed by the Register. 



' When the admission-money comes to 20/., then to stop. 1 



At a subsequent meeting, held December 19, 1660, it was 

 * ordered that the next meeting should be at Gresham Colledge, 

 and so from weeke to weeke till further order ', the suggestion 

 that the Society should meet at the College of Physicians being 

 given up. 



On the 6th March, 1660-1, Sir Robert Moray was chosen 

 President, and on April 10 was re-elected * for an other month '. 

 He had been knighted by Charles I, and joined Charles II in his 

 exile. With the latter monarch he had much influence, which 

 he used greatly to the benefit of the infant Society. 



