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for ever may and shall have one Treasurer, two Secretaries, cierk, and twc. 



one Clerk, and two Serjeants-at-Mace, who may from time Mace : 



to time attend upon the President; and that the afore- 



said Treasurer, Secretaries, Clerk, and Serjeants-at-Mace, 



to be elected and nominated, before they be admitted 



to execute their several and respective offices, shall take 



their corporal oaths in the form and effect last specified, who are a n to i><- 



before the President and Council of the same Royal 



Society, or any seven or more of them, rightly, well, and 



faithfully to execute their several and respective offices them - 



in all things touching the same ; and that after having 



so taken such oaths, as it is aforesaid, they may exercise 



and use their respective offices ; to which same Presi- 



dent and Council, or to any seven or more of them, we do 



give and grant by these presents full power and authority 



to administer the oaths aforesaid from time to time to the 



aforesaid several and respective officers and their suc- 



cessors : And we have assigned, nominated, chosen, created, 



appointed, and made, and by these presents for us, our 



heirs, and successors do assign, nominate, choose, create, 



appoint, and make, our beloved subjects William Balle, wmiamBaiieap- 



Esquire, to be and become the first and present Trea- -Ssurcr, John 



surer, and the aforesaid John Wilkins and Henry Homy oiden- 



Oldenburg to be and become the first and present bur Secretaries. 



Secretaries, of the aforesaid Royal Society; to be con- 



tinued in the same offices until the aforesaid feast of 



St. Andrew the Apostle next following after the date of 



these presents : And that from time to time and at all 



times on the aforesaid feast of Saint Andrew the Apostle President, coun- 

 (unless it shall be Sunday, and if it be Sunday, then on or the major part 

 the day next following) the President, Council, and Fellows ?he President to 



of the aforesaid Royal Society for the time being, or the 



major part of the same (of whom we will the President for 



the time being to be one), may be able and have power to g^ a ' n ^ e a ' ' and 



elect, nominate, and appoint other upright and discreet Mace : who, after 



rr being sworn, are 



men, from time to time, as Treasurer, Secretaries, Clerk, to officiate till the 



and Serjeants-at-Mace of the aforesaid Royal Society ; and Andrew's Day. 



that those who shall so have been elected, appointed, and 



.sworn to the aforesaid several and respective offices, as it 



is aforesaid, may be able and have power to exercise and 



enjoy those respective offices until the aforesaid feast 



of St. Andrew then next following, their aforesaid 



oaths, as it is aforesaid, first to be taken; and so as 



often as the case shall so happen : And if it shall happen 



that any one or any of the officers aforesaid of the same 



