82 RULES OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



meeting to be held for the purpose of considering of the expe- 

 diency of any sale, exchange, or mortgage, (of which notice 

 shall be given at a previous general meeting), to sell, exchange,- 

 mortgage, or otherwise dispose of any part of the real property 

 now belonging or hereafter to belong to the Society, in such 

 manner as by a resolution of the Society for that purpose shall 

 be ordered and entered in their minutes, and a recital of such 

 resolution in the conveyance of such property shall be evidence 

 of its having been regularly and properly made, and the receipts 

 or receipt of the trustees for the time being for the money, for 

 which any part of such property may be sold or mortgaged, or 

 for any money to be received for equality of change or other- 

 wise, shall be sufficient discharges to the person or persons 

 paying the same respectively for the money for which the same 

 shall be so given, or for so much thereof as in such receipts or 

 receipt shall be acknowledged to be received, and the person or 

 persons paying the same respectively, and taking such receipts 

 or receipt as aforesaid, shall not afterwards be answerable or 

 accountable for the loss, misapplication, or non-application, or 

 be in anywise obliged to see to the application thereof, or of 

 any part thereof respectively, and such person or persons shall 

 be free from all obligation of ascertaining the existence of the 

 resolution, or of its having been duly made. 



39. It shall not be in the power of any member or members 

 of the Society to dissolve the same, or to sell, give, assign^ 

 change, or dispose of his or their share or respective shares or 

 interest therein, or the property belonging thereto. And on the 

 decease or secession of any member, or on the erasure of his 

 name from the list of members in the books of the treasurer of 

 the Society, agreeably to the established laws thereof, his share 

 or interest in the Society, and of and in the property belonging 

 thereto, shall immediately thenceforth cease and determine. 



40. The Council shall have the power of lending to or ex- 

 changing specimens with other institutions or individuals, in 

 such manner as they may judge conducive to the interests of 

 the Society and of science ; such specimens excepted as shall 

 have been presented under express stipulation to the contrary. 



