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Council may cause the same to be published in any way and at any time 
they may think proper after having been read. If a Paper be not read, 
it shall be returned to the author; and, if a Paper be not published 
within a reasonable time after having been read, the author shall be 
entitled himself to publish it, and he may borrow it for that purpose. 
2. When a Paper is sent to the Society for the purpose of being read, it 
shall be laid before the Council, who shall refer it to two of that body, or 
of the other Members or Associates of the Society whom they may select, 
for their opinions as to the character of the Paper and its fitness or 
otherwise for being read before the Society, which they shall state as 
briefly as may be, in writing, along with the grounds of their respective 
opinions. Should one of such opinions be adverse to the Paper and 
against its being read before the Society, then it shall be referred to some 
other referee, who is unaware of the opinion already pronounced upon the 
Paper, in order that he may state his opinion upon it in like manner. 
Should this opinion be adverse to the Paper, the Council shall then 
consult and 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 contidential, except in so far as 
the Council may please to direct otherwise. 
3. The Council may authorize 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 day 
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 restrictions 
than are herein imposed, and to no other interference than may arise 
from the acts of Members and Associates in General Meeting assembled. 
