RULES OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 8 1 



PROPERTY OF THE SOCIETY. 



36. The property of the Society, both real and personal, 

 shall be vested in trustees to be chosen out of the ordinary 

 members. The number of such trustees shall not be more 

 than fifteen nor less than three. 



37. When the present trustees of the Society, or any of them, 

 or any future trustees to be appointed as after mentioned, shall 

 happen to die, or shall be desirous of being discharged of and 

 from, or shall refuse or decline to act in the trusts in them 

 reposed, then, and in such case, and so often as it shall happen 

 that by such means such trustees shall be reduced under the 

 number of five, it shall and may be lawful to and for the 

 ordinary members of the Society, from time to time at a meet- 

 ing to be called for that purpose, of which a month's notice 

 shall be given at a previous general meeting, to elect, nominate, 

 substitute, or appoint any other persons to be trustees, in the 

 stead or place of the trustees so dying or desiring to be dis- 

 charged or refusing or declining to act ; and when so often as 

 any new trustee shall be nominated and appointed, all the trust 

 property, as well real as personal, shall be thereupon, with all 

 convenient speed, conveyed and assured, assigned and trans- 

 ferred, in such sort and manner, and so as that the same shall 

 and may be legally and effectually vested in the surviving or 

 continuing trustees or trustee of the same trust estates and such 

 new trustees, jointly, or if there shall be no such continuing 

 trustee, then wholly in such new trustees, in trust for the said 

 Natural History Society, and to be held and applied according 

 to the rules or regulations and laws for the time being of the 

 said Society, and the recital in the deed or deeds of conveyance 

 or assignment of the trust property, of the appointment of new 

 trustees by the Society, shall, in all respects, and to all intents 

 and purposes, be considered as evidence of the resolution and 

 appointment, and of the same having been regularly made. 



. 38. It shall and may be lawful to and for the trustees for the 

 time being, at any time or times hereafter, by the direction of 

 a majority of the members of the Society then present, at a 



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