consult and tlecide whetlier the Paper shall be rejected or read ; and, if 

 rejected, tlie Paper shall be returned to the author with an intimation of 

 the purport of the advei-se opinicMis 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 ple;vse to direct otherwise. 



3. The Council may authorise Papers to be read witliout such previous 

 reference for an ojnnion 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 co])ies of their Pa2)er, with the 

 discussion thereon, or with such other number as may be determined upou 

 by the Council. 



>5 VII. Bye-Lav:s (C4ener;d). 



1. The government of the Society, and the management of its 

 concerns are entrusted to the Council, subject to no other resti-ictions 

 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 pi-ovided for, the Council may make such regulations and 

 arrangements as they deem jjroper, and as shall ap])ear 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 susjjeud any such officer, clerk 

 or servant from his office and duties, whenever there shall seem to thoni 

 occasion ; jjrovided always, that every such appointment or susj)ensiou 

 shall be re])Orted by the Council to the next ensuing General Meeting of 

 the Members to l)e then confirmed or otherwise as sucii meeting may 

 think fit. 



