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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 confidential, except in so far as 
the Council may please to direct otherwise. 
8. 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 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 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 
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. 
