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Twenty pounds at once, for defraying the occasional expences of the Society ; 

 and accordingly he shall pay in moneys into the chest aforesaid, and take out 

 of the same, by order of the Council, as they shall judge expedient. 



IV. The Treasurer shall have and keep a roll or list in parchment of the 

 Fellows of the Society, with a margin before and after the names ; in the 

 former whereof shall be noted the arrears due from every Fellow, in the latter 

 the receipts and payments of the Fellows, according to the weekly or quarterly 

 contribution to the Society; and the said roll shall be signed by him, for 

 attesting the truth thereof. 



V. Upon the third Wednesday which shall be next after each of the 

 quarter-days, the Treasurer, or his Deputy, shall demand the quarterly pay- 

 ments or arrears of every Fellow, from whom the same shall be due ; and 

 forthwith after the said Wednesday shall send a Collector, appointed under 

 his hand and seal, with the roll or list of the Fellows of the Society signed by 

 him, wherein the arrears due from every Fellow are noted in the margin before 

 the names, for the collecting of the said arrears. 



VI. The Accompts of the Treasurer shall be audited and examined four times 

 a year, within six weeks after each quarter-day, by a Committee of five of the 

 Council, or any three or more of them, whereof the President and one of the 

 Secretaries shall be two. And the same shall be done once a year before the 

 Anniversary Elections, by a Committee to be nominated by the President, with 

 the consent of the major part of the Fellows present, given by ballot, at one 

 of the three next preceding weekly Meetings of the Society; which shall consist 

 of Fellows that are not Members of the Council, to the number of five, whereof 

 any three or more shall be a Quorum, who shall make their report to the Society, 

 upon the Meeting next before the Anniversary Election, or upon the day of 

 the said election. 



CHAP. X Of the Secretaries. 



I. THE Secretaries, or either of them, shall have the charge and custody of 

 the Charter-book, Statute-book, Journal-books of the Society and Council, 

 Register-books and Letter-books of the Society, as also of all papers and 

 writings belonging to the Society ; any of which they shall cause to be produced 

 at any Meetings of the Society or Council, as the case shall require, or as they 

 shall be ordered so to do by the Society or Council. 



II. The Secretaries, or either of them, shall have inspection over the Clerk, 

 and shall give order and direction to him, concerning the entering and writing 

 of all matters in the Journal-books of the Society or Council, the Register- 

 books, or any other books of the Society, also concerning any orders or other 

 writings for the use and service of the Society. 



III. The Secretaries, or either of them, shall attend at all Meetings of 

 the Society and Council ; where, when the President hath taken the Chair, 

 one of them shall read the orders and entries of the next preceding Meeting, 



