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report. He shall also obtain from the Treasurer such 

 grants as may have been voted for the purposes of the 

 Committee. 



XL VII. All Committees and individuals to whom Kft, 

 any work has been assigned by the Society shall pre- 

 sent to the Council, not later than the 1st November 

 in each year, a report of the progress which has been 

 made ; and, in cases where grants of money for scientific 

 purposes have been entrusted to them, a statement of 

 the sums which have been expended, and the balance 

 of each grant which remains unexpended. Every 

 Committee shall cease to exist on the 1st November, 

 unless re-appointed. 



XL VIII. Grants of pecuniary aid for scientific pur- Grants expire, 

 poses from the funds of the Society shall expire on the 

 1st November next following, unless it shall appear by 

 a report that the recommendations on which they were 

 granted have been acted on, or a continuation of them 

 be ordered by the Council. 



XLIX. In grants of money to Committees and indi- SSaiSto be 

 viduals, the Society shall not pay any personal expenses i jaid - 

 which may be incurred by the Members. 



L. No new law, or alteration or repeal of an existing £JJg ration of 

 law, shall be made except at the General Meeting in 

 March, or at a Special General Meeting summoned for 

 the purpose, as provided in Law XIX., and in pursuance 

 of notice given at the preceding Ordinary Meeting of 

 the Society. 



LI. Should any circumstance arise not provided for vfdS for. pr °" 

 in these laws, the Council is empowered to act as may 

 seem to be best for the interests of the Society. 



LII. In order that the Members and Associates of the Sections - 

 Society prosecuting particular departments of science 

 may have opportunities of meeting and working 

 together with fewer formal restraints than are neces- 

 sary at the Ordinary Meetings of the Society, Sections 

 may be established. 



LIII. Sections may be established for the folio wine: Names and num. 



. . » o ber of Sections. 



departments, viz. : — 



Section A. Physical, Astronomical, and Mechanical 

 Science, including Engineering. 



