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

 cessors 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, 1 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. 



And whereas we, by our Letters Patent bearing date at West- Recital of gomeparta 

 minster, the twenty-second day of April, in the fifteenth year of ol 

 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 suc- 

 cessors, or is otherwise occupied, so that he cannot attend to the 

 necessary affairs of the same Royal Society touching the office of 

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

 lawful to the same President, so being detained, employed, or occu- 

 pied, to nominate and appoint one of the Council of the afore- 

 said Royal Society for the time being to be and become the Deputy 

 of the same President ; 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 aforesaid President is so absent, 

 during the whole time in which the aforesaid President shall con- 

 tinue in the office of President, unless in the meanwhile the afore- 

 said 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 or 

 ought to pertain to the office of President of the aforesaid Royal 

 Society, or which are limited and appointed to be done and executed 

 by the aforesaid President by virtue of those our Letters Patent, 

 from time to time, as often as it shall happen that the aforesaid 

 President is so absent, during such time as the Deputy of the afore- 

 said President shall continue, by force of those our Letters Patent, 

 as fully, freely, and wholly, and in as ample manner and form, as 

 the President aforesaid, if he were present, may be able and have 

 power to do and execute the same ; a corporal oath first to be taken 



1 ' Chamberlain,' &c., above. 



