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decide whether the Paper shall be rejected or read ; and, if rejected, 

 the Paper shall be returned to the author with an intimation of the 

 purport of the adverse opinions which have been given with respect 

 to it ; but the names of the referees are not to be communicated to 

 him, unless with their consent or by order of the Council. All such 

 references and communications are to be regarded as confidential, 

 except in so far as the Council may please to direct otherwise. 



3. The Council may authorise Papers to be read without such 

 previous reference for an opinion thereon ; and when a Paper has 

 been referred, and the opinion is in favour of its being read in 

 whole or in part, the Council shall then cause it to be placed in 

 the List of Papers to be so read accordingly, and the author shall 

 receive due notice of the evening fixed for its reading. 



4. The authors of Papers read before the Society shall, if they 

 desire it, be presented with twenty-five separate copies of their 

 Paper, with the discussion thereon, or with such other number as 

 may be determined upon by the Council. 



§ VII. Bye-Laws (General). 



1. The government of the Society, and the management of its 

 concerns are entrusted to the Council, subject to no other restric- 

 tions than are herein imposed, and to no other interference than 

 may arise from the acts of Members in General Meeting assembled. 



2. With respect to the duties of the President, Yice-Presidents, 

 and other Officers and Members of Council, and any other matters 

 not herein specially provided for, the Council may muke such regu- 

 lations and arrangements as they deem proper, and as shall appear to 

 them most conducive to the good government and management of 

 the Society, and the promotion of its objects. And the Council may 

 hire apartments, and appoint persons not being Members of the 

 Council, nor Members or Associates of the Institute, to be salaried 

 officers, clei'ks, or servants, for carrying on the necessary business of 

 the Society ; and may allow them respectively such salaries, gra- 

 tuities, and privileges, as to them, the Council, may seem proper ; 

 and they may suspend any such officer, clerk, or servant from his 

 office and duties, whenever there shall seem to them occasion ] 

 provided always, that every such appointment or suspension shall be 

 reported by the Council to the next ensuing General Meeting of the 

 Members, to be then confirmed or otherwise, as such Meeting may 

 think fit. 



