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III. The Council shall, within one week after such requisition shall have 

 been so delivered, appoint a day for a Special General Meeting accordingly, 

 and give one week's notice thereof to each Fellow residing within the limits 

 of the three-penny post, stating in the notice the object of such Meeting. At 

 such Meeting no business shall be brought forward except what shall have 

 been so notified. 



CHAP. XIII Of the Publication of Paper*. 



I. THE Members of the Council for the time being, shall constitute and be 

 a standing Committee, to whom the consideration of the Publication of such 

 Papers as shall have been read, or communicated to the Society at their weekly 

 Meetings, shall from time to time be referred. This Committee shall meet at 

 such times as shall be appointed by the President ; flue and sufficient notice of 

 such Meeting having been previously sent to every Member of the Committee. 



II. No less number than Seven of the Members of the said Committee 

 (of which number the President, or in his absence a Vice-President, shall 

 always be one,) shall be a Quorum, capable of acting in relation to the said 

 Papers. 



III. The majority of the said Committee, present at any Meeting thereof, 

 shall be at liberty to call in to their assistance, at that or any other subsequent 

 Meeting, any other Fellows of the Society, who are knowing and well-skilled 

 in the particular branch of Science to which the Paper under deliberation 

 relates ; and the persons so called in to assist may give their votes on all Papers 

 to be considered at the Meeting at which they shall be desired to assist, in the 

 same manner as if they were Members of the Committee. 



IV. At every Meeting of the Committee, their method of proceeding upon the 

 Papers to be considered by them shall be thus : The entry in the Journal-book 

 of the Society, relating to any paper, upon which the opinion of the Committee 

 is to be taken, shall be read ; or, if any Member shall desire it, the paper itself 

 shall be read : after which the question shall be put, whether that paper shall 

 be printed in the Philosophical Transactions, unless the opinion of the majority 

 of the Committee shall be in favour of adjourning the consideration of it to a 

 subsequent Meeting. The question shall always be decided by ballot, and by 

 a majority of votes ; but if there be an equality of votes, the further consideration 

 of the question shall be adjourned to the next Meeting of the Committee, when 

 that question shall be taken into consideration before any other business is 

 entered upon : and if, at the second balloting upon the same question, there 

 be still an equality of votes, it shall be determined in the negative. The 

 decisions of the Committee respecting the printing of Papers in the Philo- 

 sophical Transactions shall be entered in the Minute-book of the Committee. 



V. The Philosophical Transactions shall be printed at the sole charge, and 

 for the sole use and benefit, of the Society, and of the Fellows thereof; to the 

 intent that each of the present Fellows, who actually contributes and pays 



