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5. The Papers read before the Society, and the discussions thereon 
fully reported, shall be printed by order of the Council ; or, if not, the 
Council shall, if they see fit, state the grounds upon which this Rule has 
been departed from, in the printed Journal or Transactions of the Society. 
6. The Council may at their discretion authorize Papers of a general 
kind to be read at any of the Ordinary Meetings, either as introductory 
lectures upon subjects proper to be afterwards discussed, or as the results 
of discussions which have taken place, in furtherance of the 5th Object 
of the Society (§ I). 
7. The Council may, at its discretion, request any Lecturer or Author 
of a paper to be read at any Meeting, previously to submit an outline of 
the proposed method of treating his subject.* 
8. At the Ordinary Meetings no question relating to the Rules or 
General Management of the affairs of the Society shall be introduced, 
discussed or determined. 
§ V. Bye-Laws (Council Meetings). 
1. The Council shall meet at least once every month from November 
to June inclusive, or at any other time and on such days as they may 
deem expedient. The President, or any three Members of the Council, 
may at any time call a Special Meeting, to which the whole Council shall 
be summoned. 
2. At Council Meetings three shall be a quorum ; the decision of the 
majority shall be considered as the decision of the Meeting, and the 
Chairman shall have a casting vote. 
3. Minutes of the Proceedings shall be taken by one of the Secretaries, 
or, in case of his absence, by some other Member present, whom the 
Chairman may appoint ; which Minutes shall afterwards be entered in a 
minute-book kept for that purpose, and read at the next Meeting of the 
Council, when, if found correct, they shall be signed by the Chairman. 
§ VI. Bye-Laws (Papers). 
1. Papers presented to be read before the Society shall, when read, be: 
considered as the property of the Society, unless there shall have been 
any previous engagement with its author to the contrary; and the 
* So arranged when the “Intermediate Meetings” were commenced. 
16th January, 1871. 
