158 RECORD OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY 



Care of the 

 Seal. 



Sealing 

 Deeds. 



Power to 

 make and 

 alter 

 Standing 

 Orders. 



Procedure in 

 making or 

 altering 

 Statutes. 



CHAP. XVIII Of the Common Seal and Deeds. 



I. THE Common Seal of the Society shall be kept in a box, the key of which 

 shall be kept in a sealed packet. When the Common Seal has to be used, this 

 packet shall be opened by the President in Council ; and at the Council meet- 

 ing at which it is so opened, the Common Seal having been replaced in the box, 

 and the box locked, the key shall again be enclosed in a packet, which shall be 

 sealed by the President with his private seal. The box and sealed packet shall 

 be kept at the Society's Apartments in an iron safe. 



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

 shall be passed and sealed in Council. 



CHAP. XIX Of the Restraint of Dividends to Fellows. 

 I. THE Society shall not, and by its laws may not, make any Dividend, 

 Gift, Division, or Bonus in Money unto or between any of its Members. 



CHAP. XX Of the Standing Orders of the Society. 



I. THE Council may from time to time make Standing Orders for the regu- 

 lation of the affairs of the Society, provided that such Standing Orders be not 

 contrary to anything contained in the Charters or Statutes of the Society. 

 Such Standing Orders may be made, amended or repealed at any meeting of 

 the Council, provided that notice of any proposed new Standing Order, amend- 

 ment or repeal has been given at the preceding Council. Such notice shall 

 specify the proposed new Standing Order, amendment or repeal. 



CHAP. XXI Of the Making, Amending, and Repealing of Laws. 



I. FOR the making of any new Statute of the Society or for the amendment 

 or repeal of any Statute or any part thereof, notice of the proposed new 

 Statute, amendment or repeal shall be given at a meeting of the Council, and 

 such notice shall specify the proposed new Statute, amendment or repeal. The 

 Council shall thereupon appoint a day for the consideration of the proposal. 

 On such day the question to be resolved shall be to this effect, viz., * Whether 

 the proposed new Statute, amendment or repeal shall be proposed at another 

 meeting ? ' And if this be determined in the affirmative the Council shall 

 appoint a day for such proposal. On such day the question shall be to this 

 effect, viz., ' Whether the proposed new Statute, amendment or repeal shall 

 be agreed upon ?' And in case the said new Statute, amendment or repeal 

 be agreed unto, the same shall be recorded in the Statute Book of the Society, 

 and when so recorded shall pass for a law. 



