82 STATUTES OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF AKTS AND SCIENCES. 



concerning the improvement of the estate, goods, lands and revenues of the Academy, pursuant to 

 the orders of the Academy. 



3. Every deed or writing to which the Common Seal is to be affixed, shall be passed and sealed 

 in Council, and signed by the President, and four, at the least, of the Council. 



4. During the recesses of the Academy, the Council shall direct the Secretaries in such corre- 

 spondence as they shall find expedient. The whole of which shall be laid before the Academy at 

 its next meeting. 



5. The Council shall order such papers and letters to be recorded as they shall think proper. 



CHAPTER IV. 



Of the Secretaries. 



1. One of the Secretaries shall have the charge and custody of the Charter and Statute-Book, 

 Journal-Books, Register-Books, and all literary papers belonging to the Academy; and also all 

 letters, after they have been recorded, shall be kept by him on file. This Secretary, if possible, shall 

 attend at all meetings of the Academy and Council, where, when the presiding member hath taken 

 the chair, he shall read the orders and entries of the last precedent meeting, and shall take notes of 

 the orders and transactions of the present meeting, to be entered by him in the respective books 

 to which they relate. And when there shall be a competent number for making elections, he shall 

 give notice of any candidates that shall stand propounded in order to election into the Academy. 



2. The other Secretary shall have the charge and custody of the letter-books belonging to the 

 Academy. He shall attend all meetings of the Academy and Council, and read all letters sent to 

 the Academy, or to any member in his academical capacity, and draw up all letters to be written to 

 any persons in the name of the Academy or Council (to be read and approved of in some meeting of 

 either, respectively) except, for some particular cause and consideration, some other person or persons 

 be appointed by the Academy or Council, to draught any such letter. He shall also enter all letters 

 that shall be directed by the Academy or the Council, and when entered, the originals shall be 

 delivered to the first-mentioned Secretary in order to their being filed. 



3. At every meeting of the Academy, the Secretary, in whose custody the letter-books are, shall 

 read any entries that the presiding member shall direct ; and the Secretary, in whose custody the 

 originals are, shall have with him, ready to produce, the file of all letters received since the last 

 precedent meeting, that, if it be required, a comparison may be made. 



4. Each Secretary shall deliver an attested copy of any transaction of the Academy, or paper 

 belonging to his particular department, to any member, upon his producing a written licence from 



