object the publication of inedited Manuscripts, illustrative of 

 the intellectual, the moral, the religious, and the social con- 

 dition of those parts of England and Scotland, included on 

 the East between the Humber and the Frith of Forth, and on 

 the West between the Mersey and the Clyde, a region which 

 constituted the Ancient Kingdom of Northumberland. 



NEW RULES AGREED UPON IN 1849. 



The Report of the Committee appointed at a General 

 Meeting, held on the 7th February last, to revise the Rules 

 of the Society, was taken into consideration, and the following 

 Rules were adopted for the future government of the Society : — 



I. The Society shall consist of an unlimited number of 

 members. 



II. There shall be a Patron of the Society, and the Right 

 Reverend Edward Maltby, D.D., F.R.S., Lord Bishop of 

 Durham, shall be the first Patron. 



III. The Warden of the University of Durham for the 

 time being shall be the President of the Society. 



IV. There shall be twenty-four Vice-Presidents, of whom 

 four shall be such of the Professors, Tutors, or Fellows of the 

 University of Durham as shall be members of the Society. 

 There shall also be a Secretary and two Treasurers. 



V. The Patron, the President, the Vice-Presidents, the 

 Secretary, and the Treasurers, shall form the Council, any 

 five of whom, including the Secretary and a Treasurer, shall 

 be a quorum competent to transact the business of the Society. 



VI. The twenty-four Vice-Presidents, the Secretary, and 

 the Treasurers, shall be elected at a general meeting, to con- 

 tinue in office for three years, and be capable of re-election. 



VII. Any vacancies in the offices of Secretary or Trea- 

 surers shall be provisionally filled up by the Council, subject 

 to the approbation of the next general meeting. 



VIII. Three meetings of the Council shall be held in every 

 year, one in each academical term of the University of 

 Durham, at such place, and on such a day, as shall be fixed 

 upon by the President, to be communicated by the Secretary 

 to the members of the Council. 



IX. The meeting in the Easter Term of each year shall be 

 the anniversary, to which all the members of the Society shall 

 be convened by the Secretary. 



X. The President shall have the power of convening extra- 

 ordinary meetings of the Council. 



XI. Members may be elected by ballot at any one of the 

 terminal meetings, upon being proposed in writing by three 

 existing members. One black ball in ten shall exclude. 



