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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 Secre- 
taries, 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 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 
