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<]<d and appoint another or others to the office or offices of those jwr, aad tin MW 

 persons so deceased, retired, or amoved ; and that he or they so elected 2?* 1 

 and appointed may have and exercise the respective offices aforesaid 

 during the residue of the same year, and until another or others shall 

 ha\f been in due manner elected and sworn to those respective offices; 



-o as often as the case shall so happen. 



And moreover we will, and of our special grace and of oar certain 



knowledge and mere motion do grant to the aforesaid President, 



' il, arid Fellows of the Royal Society aforesaid, and to their 



successors for ever, that the President and Council of the aforesaid ?gjjfffyLy 

 Royal Society for the time being (due or lawful summons or citation ff >t whom tb p*i- 

 being always first made of all the Members of the Council aforesaid t <m*\ m*ym~t fa* 

 to extraordinary meetings), or any nine or more of them (of whom we ^n^fZmllm^ taH 

 will the President for the time being, or his Deputy, to be one), may tbfF 'JJ^IJjf?j 

 be able and have power both to meet together and assemble in a make Lw, autoi 

 College or Hall or other convenient place within our City of London, 

 or in any other convenient place within ten miles of our 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 be 

 time to time to draw up, constitute, 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, for 

 the better government, regulation, and direction of the Royal Society 

 ud, and of every Member of the same, and to do and perform 

 all things belonging to the government, matters, goods, faculties, rents, 

 land-, tenements, hereditaments, and affairs of the Royal Society 

 aforesaid ; all and singular which laws, statutes, acts ordinances, and 

 constitutions so to be made as it is aforesaid, we will, and by these 

 presents for us, 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: so nevertheless, 

 that the aforesaid laws, statutes, acts, ordinances, and constitutions 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. 



And further, of our more ample special grace and of our certain 

 knowledge and mere motion, we have given and granted, and by these 

 presents for us, our heirs, and successors do give and grant to the 

 aforesaid President, Council, and Fellows of the aforesaid Royal 

 Society, and to their successors for ever, or to any twenty-one or 

 more of them (of whom we will the President for the time being, or 

 K-puty, to be always one), or to the major part of the aforesaid 



