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three Vice-Presidents, one Treasurer, four Secre- 

 taries, and three Curators, and that all the said 

 officers be chosen by ballot, at the first meeting, viz. 

 the 2nd of January, (excepting only, instead of elect- 

 ing a Patron, a Committee of the United Society be 

 appointed at said meeting, to wait on the Governor 

 of the Province, and request him to be Patron) which 

 officers shall continue in their respective offices till 

 the first meeting of the United Society, which shall 

 be in January 1770, when, and at every first meeting 

 in January, which shall be in every year, there shall 

 be a new election of officers, 



5. That after the union, a Committee be appointed 

 to form a new set of laws, taking in what may be 

 thought proper out of the former laws of both So- 

 cieties, 



6. That each Society before the first of January 

 pay off their respective debts, and the Treasurers of 

 the former Societies shall account and settle with the 

 new Treasurer to be chosen and pay him the balances 

 in their hands, 



7. That the books and all the curiosities, etc. of the 

 former Societies, be deposited in the cabinet or else- 

 where as the United Society shall direct, 



8. That in the joint publication which it may be 

 thought proper to make of the transactions of the 

 former Societies, no preference shall be given to the 

 papers of either, but they shall be arranged and 

 digested according to their subjects and dates, 



