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Council Meetings. 
XXIII. Meetings of the Council of Management shall take ‘ 
place on the last Wednesday in every month, and on such other — 
days as the Council may determine. 3 
Absence from Meetings of Council.—Quorum. 
XXIV. Any member of the Council absenting himself from. 
three consecutive meetings of the Council, without giving a satis- 
factory explanation in writing, shall be considered to have vacated 
his office. No business shall be transacted at any meeting of 
the Council unless three members at least are present. 
Duties of Secretaries. 
XXYV. The Honorary Secretaries shall perform, or shall cause — 
the Assistant Secretary to perform, the following duties :—_ 
1. Conduct the correspondence of the Society and Council. 
2. Attend the General Meetings of the Society and the 
meetings of the Council, to take minutes of the pro- c 
ceedings of such meetings, and at the commensal 4 
of such to read aloud the minutes of the p 
meeting. | 
8, At the Ordinary Meetings of the members, to announce 
the presents made to the Society since their last meeting; 
to read the certificates of candidates for admission #0 : 
_ the Society, and such original papers communicated £0 | 
the Society as are not read by their respective authors, 4 
and the letters addressed to it. 
4. To make abstracts of the papers read at the Ordinary : 
General Meetings, to be inserted in the Minutes and : 
printed in the Proceedings. | 
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5. To edit the Transactions of the Society, and to psn 
the making of an Index for the same. ‘ 
6. To be responsible for the arrangement and safe custody 
of the books, maps, plans, specimens, and other propel’? 
of the Society. 
