UKCOKD OK THK KOYAL SOCIETY 



hill power and authority to administer the oaths aforesaid from time 



to time to the :.: -al and respective officers and their 



TTn ftrrt TIMMHI successors : And we liave I, nominated, chosen, ereated. 



,^J|^ 6 appointed, and maile. and by the*e presents tor us, our heirs, and 



,n. nominate, choose, create, appoint, and make, our 



beloved subjects the aforesaid William Halle. Esquire, to be and 



:ne the th>t anil present Treasurer, and the aforesaid John 



Wilkins and Henry Oldenburg to he and become the first and p- 



d Hoval nitimied in the 



x until tl id feast of St. Andrew the Apostle next 



(N ' ." : follow ing alter the date of these proents : And that from time to time 

 and at all times on t : St. Andrew the Apostle (unless 



11 Iv Sunday, and if it be Sunday, then on the day next following), 

 - -. . u A the President. Council, and Fellows of the aforesaid Royal Society 

 for the time K'ing, or any thirty-one or more of them (of whom we 

 "ill the President for the time being, or his Deputy, to be or. 

 the . t of the aforesaid thirty-one or more, may be able and 



power to elect, nominate, and appoint upright and discreet men. 



ire and shall be of the number of the Council of the 1> 



' : "" v ' A ~ Society afori<aid. as Tiva^urer and Secretaries, from time to time; 

 and that those who shall so have been elected, appointed, and <\\orn 

 to tl ; and re- s \said. may 



aid enjoy thr tive offices 



until the f St. Andixnv then next following, their 



afon - it i^ afoivs^iid. first to Iv taken; ar ten as 



'- -.-.s tlu case shall so h.appen. And if it shall happen that the aforesaid 



:it. Council, Treasurer, [and] Secret a f any 



JJJiJJ^^J^j^SSr 1 * ot them, cannot conveniently be made or finished on the 



' _ . ; . aforesaid fea>t of St. Andrew, \\egive and grant to the aforesaid 

 ient,CoancU,' President, Council, and . and to their - . that 



thi \ or :iny|thirty-one or more of them (of whom we will the President 

 ^ or tne tmie ^'ing, i>r his Deputy, to be one), or the major part of the 



v lawfully name and assign one other day. 



- M< II bo *!u feast of St. Ar.divw aforesaid as can conveniently be 

 d. . or finishing * fans; and SO 



LV, until the aforesaid elections be finished: And if H 

 UM Pwri- happen that ,ny of the aforesaid officers of tin 



tire, or Iv amoved from their 



offices, that th< > often it may and shall be uood and lawful to 



Roval S, 



IVr-.-.tv to I* one or 



tiMouuorimrtofnich an " * e or more of them 



(of ^ sent for the time } his Deputy, to 



be or 



