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delivered ; such order, however, shall not extend further back than to the last 

 five years preceding the date. 



IX. If the number of copies so to be printed shall be greater than what will 

 be requisite to supply each of the Fellows with one copy, such supernumerary 

 copies, as also all such as shall remain in the hands of the Assistant-Secretary 

 after five years shall have elapsed from the time of his having begun to deliver 

 out such copies respectively, shall be disposed of, at such times, and in such 

 manner, as the Council shall direct. 



CHAP. XIV Of the Books and Papers of the Society. 



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

 shall be fairly written the copy of the Charters, all the Royal Grants on the 

 behalf of the Society, and the Obligation to be subscribed by the Fellows of 

 the Society in their own handwriting. 



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

 fairly written all the Laws, Statutes, and Constitutions made, or to be made, 

 concerning the government and regulating of the Society or Council ; and also 

 a Register of the Fellows of the Society, with the times of their Election and 

 Admission. 



III. There shall be kept Journal-books of the Society, and also of the 

 Council, wherein shall be entered all the Minutes, Orders, and business of the 

 Society and Council at their respective Meetings ; to which Journal-books any 

 Fellow may have access at such times as the Library is open. 



IV. The original copy of every Paper read at the Society shall be considered 

 the proj)erty of the Society, if there be no previous engagement with its Author 

 to the contrary ; but any Author may have a copy of his own Papers by leave 

 of the Council. 



V. All the Papers read at the Society in the course of each year, and not 

 withdrawn by leave of the Council, shall be delivered to the Committee of 

 Papers ; and shall be preserved for future inspection ; and shall never be lent 

 out of the Society's House without Order of the Council. 



VI. The Library shall be open to the Fellows every day, Sundays excepted, 

 from Eleven in the morning till Four in the afternoon ; excepting on Good 

 Friday, and during Easter, Whitsun and Christmas weeks, when it shall be closed. 



VII. Any Fellow may have the loan of any of the printed Books of the 

 Society, excepting such as the Council shall order not to be taken out of the 

 Library, by giving his note for the due return of them in the condition in 

 which he received them ; but he shall not be allowed to have in his possession 

 more than four volumes at a time. The loan of Manuscripts is exclusively 

 vested in the President and Council. 



VIII. A List of all Books and Manuscripts borrowed from the Library of 

 the Royal Society, and of the Fellows of the Society to whom they are lent, 

 shall be kept in the Library. 



