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Presents to be laid on the table, and acknowledged. 

 Motions, of which notice has been given, to be 



considered. 

 Notices of motion for the next meeting to be 



given in and read by one of the Secretaries. 

 Papers to be read. 



XXIX. No stranger shall speak at a meeting of strangers. 

 the Society unless specially invited to do so by the 

 Chairman. 



XXX. At no meeting shall a paper be read, or what bus *- 

 . ■ p. i • i ness ma y " e 



business entertained, which has not been previously transacted. 



notified to the Council. 



XXXI. The Council may call additional meetings Meeting 1 ? 1 

 whenever it may be deemed necessary. 



XXXII. Every Member may introduce two visitors Vlsltors - 

 to the meetings of the Society by orders signed by 

 himself. 



XXXIII. Members and Associates shall have the S*f*™ ay 

 privilege of reading before the Society accounts of 

 experiments, observations, and researches conducted by 

 themselves, or original papers, on subjects within the 



scope of the Society, or descriptions of recent dis- 

 coveries, or inventions of general scientific interest. 

 No vote of thanks to any Member or Associate for 

 his paper shall be proposed. 



XXXIV. If a Member or Associate be unable to Semff ° ther 

 attend for the purpose of reading his paper, he may 

 delegate to any Member of the Society the reading 



thereof, and his right of reply. 



XXXV. Any Member or Associate desirous of^Jwrsmust 

 reading a paper shall give in writing to one of the their papers. 

 Secretaries, ten days before the meeting at which he 



desires it to be read, its title and the time its reading 

 will occupy. 



XXXVI. The Council may permit a paper such as Papers by 

 described in Law XXXIII., not written by a Member strangers 

 of the Society, to be read, if for any special reason it 



shall be deemed desirable. 



XXXVII. Every paper read before the Society shall Papers belong to 

 be the property thereof, and immediately after it has' 



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