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Laws. 



Duties of 

 Secretary. 



Treasurer shall receive all moneys paid to the Society, 

 and shall deposit the same before the end of each 

 month in the Bank approved by the Council, to the 

 credit of an account opened in the name of the Royal 

 Society of Victoria. The Treasurer shall make all 

 payments ordered by the Council, on receiving a written 

 authority from the chairman of the meeting. All 

 cheques shall be signed by himself, and countersigned 

 by the Secretary. No payments shall be made except 

 by cheque, and on the authority of the Council. He 

 shall keep a detailed account of all receipts and 

 expenditure, present a report of the same at each 

 Council Meeting, and prepare a balance sheet to be 

 laid before the Council, and included in their Annual 

 Report. He shall also produce his books whenever 

 called on by the Council. 



XYI. The Secretary shall conduct the correspondence 

 of the Society and of the Council, attend all meetings 

 of the Society and of the Council, take minutes of 

 their proceedings, and enter them in the proper books. 

 He shall inscribe the names and addresses of all 

 members in a book to be keep for that purpose, from 

 which no name shall be erased except by order of the 

 Council. He shall issue notices of all meetings of the 

 Society and of the Council, and shall have the custody 

 of .all papers of the Society, and under the direction 

 of the Council, superintend the printing of the Trans- 

 actions of the Society. 



XVII. The Council shall meet on any day within one 

 week before every ordinary meeting of the Society. 

 Notice of such meeting shall be sent to every Member 

 at least two days previously. No business shall be 

 transacted at any meeting of the Council unless 

 five Members be present. Any Member of Council 

 absenting himself from three consecutive meetings of 

 Council, without satisfactory explanation in writing, 

 shall be considered to have vacated his office, and the 

 election of a member to fill his place shall be pro- 

 ceeded with at the next ordinary meeting of members, 

 in accordance with Rule XIII. 



special XVIII. The Secretary shall call a Special Meeting 



cw gs ° f of Council on the authority of the President or of 



three Members of Council. The notice of such meet- 



Meetings of 



Council. 



