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7. With respect to Intermediate Meetings, the Papers read at which 
are not necessarily printed nor the discussions reported, the Council at 
its discretion may request any lecturer or author of a Paper to be read 
thereat, previously to submit an outline of the proposed method of 
treating his subject. 
8. At the Ordinary or Intermediate Meetings no question relating to 
the Rules or General Management of the affairs of the Society shall be 
introduced, discussed or determined. 
§S VI. 
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. 
§ VII. 
1. The government of the Society, and the management of its 
concerns are entrusted to the Council, subject to no other restrictions 
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, Vice-Presidents, 
and other Officers and Members of Council, and any other matters not 
herein specially provided for, the Council may make such regulations 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, clerks, or servants, for 
carrying on the necessary business of the Society; and may allow them 
respectively such salaries, gratuities, 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 
shai] 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 tit. 
