HISTORY of the SOCIETY i 



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XX. 



The Treasurer shall receive and disburse the money belonging to the Treasurer. 

 Society, granting the necessary receipts, and collecting the money when 

 due. 



He shall keep regular accounts of all the cash received and expended, 

 which shall be made up and balanced annually ; and at the General 

 Meeting in January, he shall present the accounts for the preceding 

 year to be audited. At this Meeting the Treasurer shall also lay before 

 the Society a list of all arrears due above twelve months, and the Socie- 

 ty ^hall thereupon give such directions as they may find necessary for 

 recovery thereof. 



XXI. 



At the General Meeting in November, a Committee of Three Mem- 

 bers shall be chosen to audite the Treasurer's accounts, and give the 

 necessary discharge of his intromissions. 



The report of the examination and discharge shall be laid before the 

 Society at the General Meeting in January, and inserted in the records. 



xxn. 



The General Secretary shall take down minutes of the proceedings of Secretary. 

 the General Meetings of the Society and of the Council, and shall enter 

 them in two separate books. He shall keep a list of the Donations made 

 to the Society, and take care that an account of such Donations be pu- 

 blished in the Transactions of the Society. He shall, as directed by the < 

 Council, and with the assistance of the other Secretaries, superintend the 

 publications of the Society, 



XXIII. 



A Register shall be kept by the Secretary, in which copies shall be 

 inserted of all the Papers read in the Society, or abstracts of those Pa- 

 pers, as the Authors shall prefer ; no abstract or paper, however, to be 

 published without the consent of the Author. It shall be understood, 

 nevertheless, that a person choosing to read a paper, but not wishing to 



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