90 RECORD OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY 



full power and authority to administer the oaths aforesaid from time 

 to time to the aforesaid several and respective officers and their 

 The first Treasurer successors : And we have assigned, nominated, chosen, created, 

 twofirst Secretaries. 6 appointed, and made, and by these presents for us, our heirs, and 

 successors do assign, nominate, choose, create, appoint, and make, our 

 beloved subjects the aforesaid William Balle, Esquire, to be and 

 become the first and present Treasurer, and the aforesaid John 

 Wilkins and Henry Oldenburg to be and become the first and present 

 Secretaries, of the aforesaid Royal Society ; to be continued in the 

 On every st. Andrew's same offices until the aforesaid feast of St. Andrew the Apostle next 

 Su*nday?and then on following after the date of these presents : And that from time to time 

 and at a11 times on the aforesaid feast of St - Andrew the Apostle (unless 



and Fellows, or any it shall be Sunday, and if it be Sunday, then on the day next following), 



thirty-one or more i i, -i 



ofthem(ofwhom,&c.), the President, Council, and Fellows of the aforesaid Royal Society 



f r the time being, or any thirty-one or more of them (of whom we 



more, may elect will the p res id e nt for the time being, or his Deputy, to be one), or 



proper persons out of r J ' " 



the Council to be Trea- the major part of the aforesaid thirty-one or more, may be able and 



surer and Secretaries ;. . . I-IT 



who, after being have power to elect, nominate, and appoint upright and discreet men, 

 wno are an ^ shall be of the number of the Council of the Royal 



following st. Andrew's oc i e ty aforesaid, as Treasurer and Secretaries, from time to time ; 



and that those wliQ shall so have been elected, appointed, and sworn 



to the aforesaid several and respective offices, as it is aforesaid, may 



be able and have power to exercise and enjoy those respective offices 



until the aforesaid feast of St. Andrew then next following, their 



aforesaid oaths, as it is aforesaid, first to be taken ; and so as often as 



if the Elections of the case shall so happen. And if it shall happen that the aforesaid 



Treasurer, and Sec're- elections of President, Council, Treasurer, [and] Secretaries, or of any 



one or anv ^ them, cannot conveniently be made or finished on the 

 be made or finished aforesaid feast of St. Andrew, we give and grant to the aforesaid 



upon St. Andrew's Day, 



the President, Council, President, Council, and Fellows, and to their successors for ever, that 

 thirty-one or more of they or anyjthirty-one or more of them (of whom we will the President 



or tfa 1 e ( major p^'rf of ' ^ or the *^ me being, or his Deputy, to be one), or the major part of the 

 such thirty-one, or s& {^ thirty-one or more, may lawfully name and assign one other day, 



more, may appoint J , J J 



one or more other day as near to the feast of St. Andrew aforesaid as can conveniently be 

 be finished. done, for making or finishing the aforesaid elections ; and so from 



if any of the said day to day, until the aforesaid elections be finished: And if it shall 

 be a^oved^he^resi- happen that any one or any of the aforesaid officers of the same 

 Society shall die, retire, or be amoved from their respective 



twenty-one or more offices, that then and so often it may and shall be good and lawful to 



of them (of whom the i j <- -i i-nn e * i 



President or his the President, Council, and Fellows of the aforesaid Royal Society, 



and to their successors for ever, or to any twenty-one or more of them 

 ( of wnom we wil1 the President for the time being, or his Deputy, to 

 the residue of the be one), or to the major part of the aforesaid twenty-one or more, to 



