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Reports and Accounts, and see to the execution of the 

 Statutes. 



7. That the business of the Secretaries, one for 

 home affairs, and one for correspondence, shall be to 

 note down in writing the orders and material passages 

 of the meetings, take care of the Books and Papers of 

 the Society, direct the Register in making entries in the 

 Register and Journal Books, draw up all such letters 

 as shall be ordered to be written in the name of the 

 Society, and which shall be approved of at one of the 

 meetings, and give notice of members and officers to be 

 elected. 



8. That the Treasurer shall receive all the Society's 

 money, and pay sums under forty shillings by order of 

 the Standing Committee, and all sums exceeding forty 

 shillings by order of the Society. That all bills for 

 charges of experiments shall be signed by the persons 

 appointed to attend the making them, and that the 

 accounts of the Treasurer shall be audited by the 

 Standing Committee four times in a year, and once in 

 a year by the Society. 



9. When experiments shall be ordered to be made 

 in Dublin at the charge of the Society, the Curator 

 shall prepare the instruments and materials ; and one 

 or more members shall be appointed to be assistants of 

 these experiments, who, together with the Curator, are 

 to attend the making thereof, and shall in due time 

 report the same in writing to the Society. 



10. When experiments are to be made in the 

 country, proper instructions shall be sent to correspon- 

 dents for making those experiments with care and 

 exactness. 



1 1 . A Register shall be kept of all experiments 

 made by order of the Society, and communicated from 

 their correspondents, and observations made of their 



