Duties of the 

 Treasurer. 



Power to 

 make Pay- 

 ments. 



Investment 

 of Moneys. 



Audit of 

 Accounts. 



Accounts to 

 be printed. 



Charge of 

 Title Deeds. 



Duties of the 

 Secretaries. 



152 RECORD OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY 



Papers, and in the absence of the President, such Fellow shall act as Chairman 

 of such Committee. 



CHAP. VIII Of the Treasurer and his Accounts. 



I. THE Treasurer, or some person appointed by him, with the approval of 

 the Council, shall receive for the use of the Society all sums of money due 

 or payable to the Society ; and shall pay and disburse all sums due from or 

 payable by the Society; and shall keep particular Accounts of all such 

 receipts and payments. 



II. Every sum of money, payable on account of the Society, exceeding Ten 

 Pounds, shall be paid only by order of the Council ; but payments for rates or 

 taxes, to any amount, may be made by the Treasurer, without any specific 

 order of the Council for that purpose. 



III. All sums of money, which there shall not be present occasion for 

 expending or otherwise disposing of to the use of the Society, shall be laid out 

 in such Government or other securities as shall be approved of and directed by 

 the Council. 



IV. The Accounts of the Treasurer shall be audited annually, a short time 

 preceding the Anniversary Elections, by a Committee consisting of three 

 Members of the Council, of whom the President or one of the Secretaries to be 

 one ; and of three Fellows of the Society not Members of the Council, who are 

 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 ; any one or more of the said three Members of the Council, together 

 with any one or more of the said three Fellows, shall be a Quorum of the said 

 Committee : the Members of the said Committee who are of the Council shall 

 make their Report to the Council held next after such audit, on or before the 

 Anniversary Election ; and the Members of the said Committee who are not 

 of the Council shall make their Report to the Society, upon the Meeting next 

 before the Anniversary Election, or on the day of the said Election. 



V. As soon after the Audit as may be, and before the Anniversary Meeting, 

 the Treasurer shall cause an abstract of the Society's Accounts of the preceding 

 year to be printed for the use of the Fellows. 



VI. The Treasurer shall have the charge of the Title Deeds of the Society's 

 Estates, the Policies of Insurance, and Securities, and shall have the general 

 care of the Society's property. 



CHAP. IX Of the Two Secretaries. 



I. THE two Secretaries shall be responsible to the Council for the general 

 conduct of the Society's correspondence, publications, and all other business, 

 excepting that which relates to finance. 



II. The Secretaries, or one of them, shall attend all meetings of the Society, 

 Council, and Committee of Papers ; where, when the President has taken the 



