Second Charter. 69 



Deputy, to be one), or to the major part of the aforesaid one,) or the 

 twenty-one or more, to elect and appoint another or others Sh 

 to the office or offices of those persons so deceased, retired, eiVct^hcTsTor 

 or amoved ; and that he or they so elected and appointed Jtle yea?'and f tiii 

 may have and exercise the respective offices aforesaid newonessimiibe 



"* elected and 



during the residue of the same year, and until another sworn. 

 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 AVC will, and of our special grace and The President 



i i i 3 3 , i and Council 



of our certain knowledge and mere motion do grant to (em v/ Member of 



the aforesaid President, Council, and Fellows of the 

 Royal Society aforesaid, and to their successors for ever, 



that the President and Council of the aforesaid Royal i^,) or any 



<f Nine or more of 



Society for the time being (due or lawful summons or tliem > ( f whom 



J -: tne President or 



citation being always first made or all the Members of the his Deputy to be 



., f . T . j. i \ one), may meet 



Council aforesaid to extraordinary meetings), or any nine in London or 



or more of them (of whom we will the President for the 

 time being, or his Deputy, to be one), may be able and have 

 power both to meet together and assemble in a College or l hem > m w make 



Laws, Statutes, 



Hall or other convenient place within our City of London, and ordinances, 



. * 'and transact all 



or in any other convenient place within ten miles or our matters relating 

 same City ; and that they so met together and assembled, or 

 the major part of them, shall and may have full authority, 

 power, and faculty from time to time to draw up, con- evai 

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



acts, ordinances, and constitutions as shall seem to them, or able, andnotcon- 



triiry to Law. 



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

 honourable, and necessary, according to their sound dis- 

 cretions, for the better government, regulation, and direc- 

 tion of the Royal Society aforesaid, and of every Member 

 of the same, and to do and perform all things belonging 

 to the government, matters, goods, faculties, rents, lands, 

 tenements, hereditaments, and affairs of the Royal Society 

 aforesaid; all and singular which laws, statutes, acts, ordi- 

 nances, and constitutions so to be made as it is aforesaid, 

 we will, and by these presents for us, our heirs, and suc- 

 cessors, 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 : so nevertheless, that 

 the aforesaid laws, statutes, acts, ordinances, and con- 

 stitutions so to be made as it is aforesaid, 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. 



