40 Record of the Royal Society. 



And if any of Royal Society shall die, or be amoved from their re- 



them die or be . . , 11,11 -i Pl , i i T*. 



amoved, the like spective omces, that then and so often it may and sha!2 



madeof others he good and lawful to the President, Council, and Fellows 



pSffor^he 1 " of the aforesaid Royal Society, or to the major part of the 



ea? U Lid tm same ( of wnom we wil1 tne President for the time being to 



others shall be fe e one), to elect and appoint another or others to the office- 



duly elected and " 



sworn. or omces or those persons so deceased or amoved ; and 



that he or they so elected and appointed may have and' 

 exercise the respective offices aforesaid during the residue- 

 of the same year, and until another or others shall have- 

 been in due manner elected and sworn to those respective 

 offices ; and so as often as the case shall so happen. 



And moreover we will, and of our special grace and 



of our certain knowledge and mere motion do grant 



to the aforesaid President, Council, and Fellows of the 



The President Royal Society aforesaid, and to their successors, that the 



rh n e d ma"or c part r of President and^ouncil of the aforesaid Royal Society for 



them (of whom the time being, and the maior part of the same (of whom 



the President to J r 



be one), may meet we will the President for the time being to be one), may 



in a College or 



other public be able and have power to meet together and assemble 

 London, or within in a College or other public place or Hall within our City 

 aridmaie^aws. ^ London, or in any other convenient place within 

 dinanSs, a an d ddt ten miles of om% same Cit 7 5 and that they so met 

 aii other things together and assembled shall and may have full autho- 



relating to the m & . J 



affairs of the So- rity, power, and faculty from time to time to draw up, con- 

 stitute, ordain, make, and establish such laws, statutes, 

 acts, ordinances, and constitutions as shall seem to them, 

 or to the major part of them, to be good, wholesome, 

 useful, honourable, and necessary, according to their 

 sound discretions, and to do and perform all other 

 things whatsoever belonging to the affairs and matters of 

 the Royal Society aforesaid ; all and singular which laws r 

 statutes, acts, ordinances, and constitutions so to be made 

 as it is aforesaid, we will, and by these presents for us y 

 our heirs, and successors, firmly enjoining, do order and 

 command, that they shall be inviolably observed from time 

 to time, according to the tenor and effect of the same r 

 so nevertheless that the aforesaid laws, statutes, acts, 

 ordinances, and constitutions so to be made as it is afore- 

 said, and every one of them, be reasonable, and not 

 repugnant or contrary to the laws, customs, acts, or 

 statutes of this our Realm of England. 



Power is given to And further, of our more ample special grace and of our 

 FeiiowTto ap- nd certain knowledge and mere motion, we have given and 

 g rante d, and by these presents for us, our heirs, and 



