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whether papers, essays, or treatises read or communicated 

 to or at ordinary meetings of the Society shall be printed 

 or not in its Memoirs. Every paper, essay, and treatise 

 so read or communicated shall be laid before the council 

 at their next following meeting, or at a meeting as soon as 

 conveniently can be held to consider the same, and if they 

 do not then unanimously agree either to print or reject it, 

 they shall refer it to one or more members of the Society 

 to report upon its merits. It shall, however, be left to the 

 discussion of the council in exceptional cases to refer 

 papers, essays, or treatises to persons who are not 

 members of the Society to report thereon. After having 

 received the report upon a paper, essay, or treatise, the 

 council shall without delay decide by ballot whether or not 

 the same is to be printed. 



77. Four days, at least, before each annual general 

 meeting the council shall deliver, or send by post, or other- 

 wise, to each ordinary member the annual report of the 

 council, including the Treasurer's annual account and 

 the Librarian's annual report, and such reports and 

 accounts shall be read by the Secretary at the commence- 

 ment of such annual general meeting. 



78. The council shall, in addition to the powers and 

 duties by these presents expressly conferred or imposed on 

 them, exercise and perform all such other powers and 

 duties as by the statutes or these presents respectively are 

 directly or by implication conferred or imposed on the 

 governing body of the Society. 



79. The duties of the President and Vice-Presidents 

 respectively shall be to preside when required at the 

 general and ordinary meetings of the Society and the 

 ordinary and special meetings of the council, to call for 



