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Council, and Fellows of the Royal Society aforesaid and 

 their successors payable, to be done, or to be performed) 

 from the premises by these presents before granted, or from 

 any part or parcel thereof, to us, our heirs, or successors 

 issuing or to be paid, or thereupon towards us, our heirs, 

 or successors charged or to be charged ; And these our 

 Letters Patent, or the Enrolment of the same, shall be 

 from time to time, as well to the said Commissioners for 

 our Treasury, the Treasurer, Chancellor,* and Barons of 

 the Exchequer of us, our heirs, and successors, for the 

 time being, as to all and singular Auditors and other 

 officers and ministers of us, our heirs, and successors 

 whomsoever for the time being, a sufficient warrant and 

 discharge in this behalf. 

 Kccitai of some And whereas we, by our Letters Patent bearing date 



parts of the . . 



Second Charter, at Westeiinster, the twenty-second day of April, in the 

 fifteenth year of our reign, made to the President, 

 Council, and Fellows of the Royal Society aforesaid, 

 among other things, granted to the aforesaid President, 

 Council, and Fellows of the aforesaid Royal Society, and 

 to their successors for ever, that if it shall happen that 

 the President of the same Royal Society for the time 

 being is detained by sickness or infirmity, or is employed 

 in the service of us, our heirs, or successors, or is other- 

 wise occupied, so that he cannot attend to the necessary 

 affairs of the same Royal Society touching the office ( f 

 President, that then and so often it may and shall be 

 good and lawful to the same President, so being detained, 

 employed, or occupied, to nominate and appoint one of 

 the Council of the aforesaid Royal Society for the time 

 being to be and become the Deputy of the same Presi- 

 dent ; which same Deputy, so to be made and appointed 

 in the office of Deputy of the President aforesaid, may 

 and should be the Deputy of the same President from 

 time to time, as often as it shall happen that the afore- 

 said President is so absent, during the whole time in 

 which the aforesaid President shall continue in the office 

 of President, unless in the meanwhile the aforesaid 

 President of the Royal Society aforesaid for the time 

 being shall have made and appointed one other of the 

 aforesaid Council his Deputy ; And that every such 

 Deputy of the aforesaid President so to be made and 

 appointed, as it is aforesaid, may be able and have power 

 to do and execute all and singular things which pertain 

 * " Chamberlain," &c., above. 



