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executing the Office of Lord High Admiral, touching the said Observatory, 

 and its library and instruments, the observations and calculations as shall, in 

 your judgement, be conducive to the credit of Our Observatory and to the 

 promotion of astronomical and natural science. 



And Our further will and pleasure is. that Our Astronomer and Keeper of 

 the said Observatory for the time being do deliver to you every three months, 

 if required by you in writing, under the hand of your Chairman, a true and 

 fair copy of all the observations he shall have made and of all the calculations 

 relating to those or other observations made at Our said Observatory. And 

 that such number of copies of the said observations and calculations be printed 

 as Our Lord High Admiral, or the Commissioners for executing the Office of 

 Lord High Admiral, shall consider expedient. And when Our said Astronomer 

 and the Councils of the said Royal Society and Royal Astronomical Society 

 shall have been supplied with as many copies as they may desire to distribute 

 for the benefit of science, the remainder shall be sold at such price as Our Lord 

 High Admiral, or the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High 

 Admiral, shall fix. 



And Our further will and pleasure is, that you do meet annually at Our 

 said Observatory on the first Saturday in the month of June, or, should 

 circumstances render that day inconvenient, on such other day, at that period 

 of the year, as the President of the Royal Society (being a Visitor) may decide, 

 and also at such other times as may seem expedient to the President of the 

 Royal Society (being a Visitor), or if not, to Our Lord High Admiral, or the 

 Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral. And that at 

 such meeting the President of the Royal Society (being a Visitor) shall take 

 the chair, or in his absence the President of the Royal Astronomical Society 

 (being a Visitor), or in the absence of both the said Presidents, that the 

 members present shall elect a chairman for the time being among themselves. 

 And that at every such meeting seven members shall form a quorum. 



And Our further will and pleasure is, that you be empowered to appoint 

 a Secretary, who shall perform the usual duties of Secretary at your meetings, 

 and shall take charge of your books and papers, and shall receive for his 

 trouble such stipend as to Our Lord High Admiral, or to the Commissioners 

 for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral, shall seem fit. And also that 

 Our said Lord High Admiral or Commissioners shall be empowered to pay 

 such sums as they may think proper, in the nature of reimbursement of 

 expenses, to such of the visitors as attend. 



And Our further will and pleasure is, that if any one of Our Visitors (not 

 being such by virtue of his office) shall not attend the Annual Meeting for 

 three successive years without assigning such an excuse for his absence as shall 

 be deemed sufficient by a majority of Our Visitors present at a meeting, he 

 shall cease to be a Visitor ; and as often as a vacancy shall occur in the lists of 

 Visitors selected from the Fellows of the Royal Society or of the Royal 



