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satisfaction for his default, as the Council shall approve, or else be put out or 



his place. 



II. The Printer shall present of every book he prints by order of the 

 Society or Council, two copies, extraordinary well bound, to his Majesty : one 

 copy to Edward Earl of Clarendon, Lord Chancellor ; one copy to the President 

 of the Royal Society ; two copies to the library of the said Society, each of 

 them fairly bound : and one copy more to each of the Secretaries of the said 

 Society. 



CHAP. XIV Of Operators to the Society. 



I. WHENSOEVER, and as long as, an Operator to the Society hath any work 

 to do for the Society, he shall do no work for any other person, that may hinder 

 his perfecting of that within the time limited, or requisite to have it finished. 



II. An Operator, working for the Society, shall use all care and diligence to 

 dispatch all work for the Society, in as short a time as the same can be so 

 well and substantially done, as the nature of the thing requireth. 



III. If any Operator shall in any bill or reckoning defraud, or endeavour to 

 defraud the Society, he shall forfeit his place or relation to them thereby. 



IV. An Operator shall have Ten pounds by the year, for his attendance at 

 all the ordinary Meetings of the Society, as a constant salary, to be paid 

 quarterly at equal portions. 



CHAP. XV Of the Common Seal and Deeds. 



I. THE Common Seal of the Society shall be kept in an iron chest, having 

 three locks, with three different keys ; whereof one shall be in the custody 

 of the President, the other 1 of the Treasurer, and the third of one of the 

 Secretaries. 



II. Every Deed or writing, to which the common Seal is to be affixed, shall 

 l)e passed and sealed in Council, and signed by the President on the fore part 

 near the label, and signed on the back side by the rest of the Members of the 

 Council present. 



CHAP. XVI Of the Books of the Society. 



I. THERE shall be had and kept one Book, called the Charter-book, wherein 

 shall be fairly written the copy of the Charter, all his Majesty's Grants on 

 the behalf of the Society, the Obligation and Subscriptions thereto of the 

 Fellows of the Society, all the Statutes of the Society, the names and titles of 

 all the Benefactors to the Society with their donations, as also the Register 

 of all the Fellows of the Society. 



II. There shall be had and kept a Book, called the Statute-book, wherein 

 shall be fairly written the Charter of the Society ; all the Laws, Statutes, and 

 Constitutions made, or to be made, concerning the government and regulating 



1 So in the Original. 



