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keeping close to the plan originally laid down. In 

 order to do this 'twas necessary to have recourse to 

 the original laws. The laws were lost or mislaid, so 

 that they could not be found. After several searches 

 to no purpose, it was at length agreed to appoint a 

 Committee to recollect and draw up a set of Eules, 

 as agreeable as possible to the ancient Eules -and 

 Bye-Laws, heretofore established, and now in force. 

 Edmund Physick and Charles Thomson were nomi- 

 nated for this work, who, having drawn up the Eules, 

 submitted them to the examination of the company on 

 the 30th of July. As in some respects they seemed 

 to differ from the ancient rules, a question arose 

 whether the Company present had a right to enact 

 these into Laws, or whether, if enacted, they 

 could bind the whole Society. This led them into 

 a consideration of the state of the Society. 

 William Franklin and Samuel Powel are both in 

 England, who, having at their departure and tak- 

 ing leave, desired to be continued as members, and 

 promised an epistolary correspondence, ought, there- 

 fore, to be deemed such. But Paul Jackson, Stephen 

 Wooley, and Joseph Mather, who are settled each in 

 his profession, the first at a distance from this town, 

 the two latter in other Provinces, could by no means 

 have any right to interfere in making laws for the 

 government and regulation of this Society, more espe- 

 cially as they contributed nothing towards the stand- 

 ing charges of the Society, nor even attended when 



