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IV.— OF A QUORUM. 

 A quorum for business shall consist of at least five mem- 

 bers, including the President or Vice-President, 



v.— DUTY OF THE PRESIDENT, VICE-PRESIDENT OR CHAIRMAN. 

 At all meetings of the Society the President shall exercise 

 the usual duties of that office ; all motions shall be addressed 

 to him, and on all questions he shall collect and declare the 

 votes including his own ; he shall also have the power to call 

 special meetings of the Society, but all special meetings and 

 their objects shall be notified by the Secretary and published 

 in two or more city news-papers, at least eight days before 

 any special meetings shall take place ; in his absence the 

 same duties shall be performed by a Vice-President ; and if 

 it happen, at any meeting of the Society, that the Pre- 

 sident and Vice Presidents be absent, the members pre- 

 sent being a quorum to constitute a regular meeting for the 

 business to be transacted, may choose a chairman for that 

 meeting. 



VI.— DUTY OF THE TREASURER. 

 The Treasurer shall keep the accounts methodically stated, 

 in the books of the Society, and when called upon, produce 

 them for inspection. At the last meeting of every year, 

 and also when his office ends, he shall produce a fair and 

 regular account of all receipts, payments and expenditures : 

 and deliver it, together with those books, and all other pro- 

 perty of the Society, in his hands, to his successor in office, 

 or to the order of the Society. 



VIl.—DUTY OF THE CURATORS. 

 The Curators are to take charge and care of all property 

 and articles belonging to the Society, the books and papers 

 excepted, which are to remain in charge of the Secretary : 

 the Library to be under the care of the Librarian, who is to 

 assist the Curators in every thing in which his aid is re- 

 quired. The Curators are to take measures from time to 

 time, for collecting all native fossils and earthy substances 

 proper for manures, or deemed to be so, and to cause or pro- 

 cure the same to be analysed, and report to the Society the 

 result. They are also to procure experiments to be made by 



