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CHAP. XIII Of Special General Meetings of the Society. 



I. THE Anniversary Meeting for the election of the Council and Officers, Anniversary 

 and the Annual Meeting for the election of Fellows, shall take place at an Meeting, 

 hour to be determined by the Council. 



II. The President or Council may at any time call a Special General Meet- Special 

 ing of the Society when it may appear to them to be necessary. Vi'< tm'^ 



III. Any six Fellows may, by notice in writing, signed by them, and 

 delivered to one of the Secretaries at an Ordinary Meeting of the Society, 

 require a Special General Meeting of the Society to be convened, for the pur- 

 pose of considering and determining on the matters specified in such requisition, 

 and the President shall, within one week after such requisition shall have been 

 so delivered, appoint a day for a Special General Meeting accordingly. 



IV. One week's notice of any Special General Meeting shall be given to each 

 Fellow resident in the United Kingdom, and such notice shall state the object 

 of such Meeting. 



V. At such Meeting no business shall be brought forward except what shall 

 have been so notified. 



CHAP. XIV Of the Publication of Papers. 



I. THE Members of the Council for the time being shall constitute and be Committee 

 a standing Committee, to be called the Committee of Papers, to whom the "ap 61 " 8 - 

 consideration of the acceptance, reading, and publication of all papers com- 

 municated to the Society shall be referred, and who shall execute their powers 



in accordance with Standing Orders determined from time to time by the 

 President and Council. The Committee of Papers shall meet at such times as 

 shall be appointed by the President ; due and sufficient notice of such meeting 

 having been previously sent to every Member of the Committee. 



II. At a meeting of the said Committee no less number than seven of the Quorum. 

 Members (of which number the President, or, in his absence, a Vice-President, 



shall always be one) shall be a quorum. 



III. The decisions of the Committee of Papers shall be determined by the Voting, 

 majority of votes of those present and voting, and the voting shall be open, 

 unless the President shall direct that the voting shall be by ballot. In case 



of an equality of votes, the President shall have a second or casting vote. 



The decisions of the Committee shall be .duly entered in the Minute-book of 

 the Committee. 



IV. The publication of papers communicated to the Society, and of such Form of 

 other matters as the President and Council may judge fit to publish, shall take Pl 

 place under Standing Orders determined from time to time by the President 



and Council, but always in such a way that a proper portion of them shall 

 from time to time be printed and published under the title of the * Philosophi- 

 cal Transactions of the Royal Society of London,' and another proper portion 

 under the title of the * Proceedings of the Royal Society of London," 1 provided 



