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CHAP. VIII Of the President. 



I. THE business of the President shall be, to preside in all the Meetings, 

 and regulate all the debates, of the Society and Council ; to state and put 

 questions both in the affirmative and negative, according to the sense and 

 intention of the Meeting ; to call for Reports and Accounts from Committees, 

 Curators, and others ; to check irregularities, and to keep all persons to order ; 

 to summon all extraordinary Meetings of the Society and Council, upon any 

 urgent occasions ; and to execute, or see the execution, of the Statutes of the 

 Society. 



II. Whensoever any question shall be desired to be put by any Fellow, at 

 any Meeting of the Society or Council, and seconded by another, the President 

 shall put the same ; unless upon debate the sense of the Meeting appear to be 

 otherwise. 



III. The President shall take place of every Fellow of the Society, within 

 their college, or ordinary place of meeting ; as also in all other places, where 

 any number of the Fellows meet as a Society, or Council, or Committee ; and 

 being in the Chair is to be covered, while speaking unto or hearing particular 

 Fellows, notwithstanding their being uncovered. 



IV. The President shall not preside at any Meeting of the Fellows of the 

 Society, except the ordinary Meetings of the Society or Council, at known 

 time and place l ; or such extraordinary Meetings of either as shall be called 

 by a general summons of each respectively ; or the Meetings of Committees 

 appointed by the Society or Council; and except Meetings for solemnities 

 only. 



CHAP. IX Of the Treasurer and his Accompts. 



I. THE Treasurer, or his Deputy, shall receive to the use of the Society 

 all moneys, or sums of money, due or payable to the Society ; and out of such 

 moneys shall pay and disburse all moneys, or sums of money, due from 

 or payable by the Society, upon all occasions ; and shall keep particular 

 Accompts of all such receipts and payments. 



II. Every sum of money, payable to the use of the Society, of Five pounds 

 or under, shall be paid by order of the President, under his hand ; and every 

 sum exceeding Five pounds shall be paid by order of the Council, signed by 

 the President, and registered by the Secretary ; and all bills of charges for 

 experiments shall be signed by the Curators thereof, before they be presented 

 to the President. 



III. All moneys, or sums of money, whereof there shall not be present 

 occasion for expending or disposing to the use of the Society, shall be laid up 

 in an iron chest, having three different locks and keys, whereof one shall be 

 in the custody of the President, another of the Treasurer, and a third of one 

 of the Secretaries: and the Treasurer shall not have in his custody above 



1 So in the Original. 



