v.— DUTY OF THE PRESIDENT, VICE-PRESIDliNT Ott 

 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 

 si)ecial meetings of the Society, but all special meetings and 

 their objects shall be notified by the Secretary and published 

 in two or more city newspapers, at least eight days before any 

 special meetings shall take place ; in his absence the same du- 

 ties shall be performed by a Vice-President ; and if it happen^ 

 at any meeting of the Society, that the President and Vice-Pre- 

 sidents be absent, the members present being a quorum to con- 

 stitute a regular meeting for the business to be transacted, 

 may choose a chairman for that meeting. 



VL— DUTY OF THE TREASURER. 



The Treasurer shall keep the accounts methodically statedj 

 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 ac- 

 count of all receipts, payments and expenditures : and deliver 

 it, together with those books and all other property of the So- 

 ciety, in his hands, to his successor in office, or to the order 

 of the Society. 



VII.— 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 ex- 

 cepted, \vh:ch 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 everything in which his aid is required. The 

 Curators are to take measures from time to time, for collect » 

 ing all native fossils and earthly substances proper for mr.» 

 nures, or deemed to be so, and to cause or procure the same 

 to be analysed, and report to the Society the result. They are 

 also to procure experiments to be made by careful agricultur- 

 alists, of any such fossils, earths or substances, and to promote 

 in every practicable way explorations, for the discovery of na- 

 tive substances, either known or presumed to be manures or 

 auxiliaries in fertilising land. They are also to keep minutes 

 of their proceedings, to collect models of the best agricultural 

 instruments, and report their usefulness and properties, and 

 cause such models to be deposited in the apartments of the 



