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admission, and contributing their weekely allowance and assistance, 

 when their occasions do permitt them to be in London. 



" That the quorum of this Society be nine for all matters excepting 

 the Businesse of Elections. 



" Concerning the Manner of Elect i 



" That no man shall be elected the same day he is proposed. That 

 at the least twenty-one shall be present at each election. 



" That the Amanuensis doe provide severall little scroles of paper 

 of an equall length and breadth, in number double to the Society 

 present. One half e of them shall be marked with a crosse, and being 

 roled up shall be lay'd in a heap on the table, the other halfe shall be 

 marked with cyphers, and being roled up shall be lay'd in another 

 heap. Every person coming in his order shall take from each heap a 

 role, and thro we which he please privately into an urne, and the other 

 into a boxe. Then the Director, and two others of the Society, openly 

 numbering the crossed roles in the urn, shall accordingly pronounce 

 the election. 



" That if two-thirds of the present number do consent uppon any 

 scrutiny, that election to be good, and not otherwise. 



" Concerning the Officers and Servants of the Society. 



" The standing Officers of this Society to be three, that is to say, a 

 President or Director, a Treasurer, and a Register. The President to 

 be chosen monthly. 



"The Treasurer to continue one yeare, as also the Register. 



" That there be likewise two servants belonging to this Society, an 

 Amanuensis, and an Operator. 



" That the Treasurer doe every quarter give in an account of the 

 Stock in his hand, and all disbursements made to the President or 

 Director, and any three others to be appointed by the Society : who 

 are to report it to the Society. 



" That any bill of charges brought in by the Amanuensis and 

 Operator, and subscribed by the President and Register for any 

 experiment made, and subscribed by the Curators of the experiment, 

 or the major part of them, be a sufficient warrant to the Treasurer for 

 the payment of that sum. 



" That the Register provide three bookes, one for the statutes and 

 names of the Society, another for experiments and the result of 

 debates : and a third for occasionall orders. 



" That the salary of the Amanuensis be 40Z. per annum, and his 

 pay for particular business at the ordinary rate, either by the sheet or 

 otherwise, as the President and Register can best agree with him. 



" That the salary of the Operator be foure pounds by the yeare, 



