118 RECORD OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY 



CHAP. Ill Of the Payments by the Fellows to the Society. 



I. EVERY person admitted a Fellow of the Society shall, on the day of his 

 admission, pay to the use of the Society the sum of Forty shillings, for 

 admission-money. And if any such person shall refuse, or fail to pay the said 

 sum, his election and admission shall be void ; except the said sum be remitted 

 in whole, or in part, by special order of the Council. 



II. Every Fellow of the Society shall pay One shilling by the week, towards 

 the charges of experiments, and other expences of the Society, so long as he shall 

 continue a Fellow thereof: which continuance shall be accounted from the 

 time of his admission, until such time as he shall signify to the President, 

 under his hand, that he desireth to withdraw from the Society ; or until, upon 

 any other account, he shall cease to be a Fellow thereof. And if any Fellow 

 shall refuse to pay according to the rate aforesaid, he shall be ejected out of 

 the Society ; except the said Payment be remitted in whole, or in part, by 

 special order of the Council. 



III. For the more convenient receiving and collecting the contribution of 

 One shilling by the week, to be paid by every Fellow toward the charges of 

 experiments, and other expences of the Society, the same, amounting to Fifty 

 two shillings by the year, shall be paid quarterly by equal portions, viz. by 

 Thirteen shillings at a time for one whole quarter ; and proportionably for 

 a part of a quarter, by any person admitted after the beginning, or withdraw- 

 ing from the Society before the end of any quarter of the year. 



IV. The days, upon which the quarterly Payments of the contributions of 

 One shilling by the week to the Society shall become due, shall be the Twenty- 

 third day of September, the Twenty-third day of December, the Twenty-fifth 

 day of March, and the Twenty-fourth day of June. 



V. Every Fellow of the Society shall upon each of the weekly Meetings, 

 that shall fall upon the days for the quarterly Payments, or upon the first, 

 second, or third Wednesdays next after each of the said days, bring or send 

 in to the Treasurer, or his Deputy, his quarterly contribution of Thirteen 

 shillings, or such proportion of it as shall be due. And if any Fellow shall 

 fail to bring or send in, as aforesaid (being not dispensed withal, as to the said 

 Payment, by special order of the Council), he shall be liable to ejection out of 

 the Society : upon which the Council shall proceed, as they shall see cause. 



CHAP. IV Of the Ordinary Meetings of the Society. 



I. THE ordinary Meetings of the Society shall be weekly, upon Wednesday, 

 beginning about three of the clock in the afternoon, and continuing until six ; 

 unless the major part of the FeUows present shall, for that time, resolve to 

 rise sooner, or sit later. And no Fellow shall depart, without giving notice to 

 the President. 



II. When the President taketh the Chair, the rest of the Fellows shall place 

 themselves orderly, and conveniently for the business of the Meeting; and 



