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of the Society or Council ; as also a duplicate of the Register of the Fellows 

 of the Society. 



III. There shall be had and kept Journal-books for the Society, and Council ; 

 wherein shall be entered all the orders and remarkable passages of the Society, 

 and Council, at their respective Meetings. 



IV. There shall be had and kept Register-books, wherein shall be fairly 

 written all such observations, histories, and discourses of natural and artificial 

 things, as shall be ordered to be entered ; as also all such philosophical ex- 

 periments, together with the particular accounts of their processes, as shall be 

 ordered to be entered therein. 



V. There shall be had and kept a Book of Letters, wherein shall be fairly 

 written all such letters, and extracts of letters, of the Society, or to the Society, 

 or to any Member thereof, concerning philosophical matters, as shall be ordered 

 to be entered. 



VI. No Fellow shall give any copy or transcript of any matter contained in 

 the Register-books, or other Books of the Society, to any one that is not 

 a Member thereof; nor communicate the same to any such person to be tran- 

 scribed, without particular leave obtained at a Meeting of the Society ; except 

 the said matter were originally brought in, or communicated by himself. 



CHAP. X VII Of Benefactors. 



EVERY Benefactor to the Society, whose gift amounts to the value of Five 

 pounds or more, shall have his name registered in the Catalogue of Benefactors, 

 with the mention of his gift. And every Benefactor, that shall present the 

 Society with any sum of money or gift, to the value of Fifty pounds sterling 

 or more ; or shall procure any advantage, that shall be estimated by the Society 

 to be of the like value ; upon acceptance shall, without election, have the 

 privilege of being present at the Meetings of the Society, and shall not be obliged 

 to payments. And if any of the Fellows of the Society shall present to the 

 same the like gift, or sum of money, he shall not be obliged to payments for 

 the future. 



CHAP. XVIII Of the Death or Recess of any Fellow. 



UPON the Death, or the voluntary withdrawing, of any Fellow of the Society, 

 one of the Secretaries shall note such their Death or Recess in the margin 

 of the Register, against their names l ; and the Withdrawing of any Fellow 

 shall be recorded in the Journal-book. 



CHAP. XIX The Form and Causes of Flection. 



I. WHENSOEVER there shall be cause for the Ejection of any Fellow out of the 

 Society, the President shall at some Meeting thereof cancel his name in the 

 Register, and at the same time pronounce him ejected in these words : 



1 So in the Original. 

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