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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. 
§ 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 
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 
* So arranged when the “Intermediate Meetings” were commenced, 
16th January, 1871. 
