TRANSLATION OF SECOND CHARTER 91 



elect and appoint another or others to the office or offices of those year, and till new 

 persons so deceased, retired, or amoved ; and that he or they so elected * el cted 



and appointed may have and exercise the respective offices aforesaid 

 during the residue of the same year, and until another or others shall 

 have been in due manner elected and sworn to those respective offices ; 

 and so as often as the case shall so happen. 



And moreover we will, and of our special grace and of our certain The President and 

 knowledge and mere motion do grant to the aforesaid President, Srtt 

 Council, and Fellows of the Royal Society aforesaid, and to their ^23 to 



successors for ever, that the President and Council of the aforesaid nary Meetings), or any 



T i c i / i i nine or more of them 



Royal Society for the time being (due or lawful summons or citation (of whom the Presi- 

 being always first made of all the Members of the Council aforesaid be"one), may meetfin 

 to extraordinary meetings), or any nine or more of them (of whom we n^ 

 will the President for the time being, or his Deputy, to be one), may the y> or 



r J J part of them, may 



be able and have power both to meet together and assemble in a make Laws, statutes, 



College or Hall or other convenient place within our City of London, 

 or in any other convenient place within ten miles of our same City ; 

 and that they so met together and assembled, or the major part of Society and its affairs; 



J . J 1 and all their acts shall 



them, shall and may have full authority, power, and faculty from be valid : But their 



time to time to draw up, constitute, ordain, make, and establish such reasonable, and not 



laws, statutes, acts, ordinances, and constitutions as shall seem to w 



them, or to the major part of them, to be good, wholesome, useful, 



honourable, and necessary, according to their sound discretions, for 



the better government, regulation, and direction of the Royal Society 



aforesaid, and of every Member of the same, and to do and perform 



all things belonging to the government, matters, goods, faculties, rents, 



lands, tenements, hereditaments, and affairs of the Royal Society 



aforesaid ; all and singular which laws, statutes, acts, ordinances, and 



constitutions so to be made as it is aforesaid, we will, and by these 



presents for us, our heirs, and successors, firmly enjoining, do order 



and command, that they shall be inviolably observed from time to 



time, according to the tenor and effect of the same : so nevertheless, 



that the aforesaid laws, statutes, acts, ordinances, and constitutions so 



to be made as it is aforesaid, and every one of them, be reasonable, 



and not repugnant or contrary to the laws, customs, acts, or statutes 



of this our Realm of England. 



And further, of our more ample special grace and of our certain The President, Coun- 

 knowledge and mere motion, we have given and granted, and by these ^ twenty-one or 

 presents for us, our heirs, and successors do give and grant to the m hom tho President 

 aforesaid President, Council, and Fellows of the aforesaid Royal r hi Deputy to be 



always one), or the 



Society, and to their successors for ever, or to any twenty-one or major part of such 

 more of them (of whom we will the President for the time being, or n^y 

 his Deputy, to be always one), or to the major part of the aforesaid p ^ 



