LAWS AND REGULATIONS OF THE SOCIETY. XI 



Art. XIII. No purchase, nor any disposition of money or property 

 belonging to the Society, can be made, except by the advice of the 

 Council. 



Art. XIV. All communications that may be made to the Society 

 shall, in the first instance, be referred to the Council for consideration. 

 Those communications shall be classed under one of the following heads: 



1st. Belles-lettres, Civil History, Antiquities, Moral and Political 

 Sciences. 



2d. Medicine, Chemistry, Natural Philosophy, and Natural History. 



3d. Mathematics, Astronomy, Navigation, and Geography. 



4th. Husbandry, Manufactures, and the Useful Arts. 



The Council, having formed itself into four classes, shall commit the 

 several communications to one of those classes, whose duty it shall be 

 to report on the same. 



Art. XV. It shall be the duty of the Council to select, from time to 

 time, from the papers that shall have been read before the Society, and 

 submitted to their consideration, such as may appear most worthy of 

 publication, and to determine, with the concurrence of the other officers 

 of the Society, what papers shall be published : but the Society is never 

 to be considered as expressing an opinion in favour of the facts stated, 

 or reasoning contained, in such papers. 



Art. XVI. It shall be the duty of the Recording Secretaries to read 

 all communications to the Society, and to keep a journal of their pro- 

 ceedings, and upon the election of a member who resides in the city or 

 state of New-York, it shall also be their duty to give to the member so 

 elected, a notice of the same in a printed letter. 



Art. XVII. When an honorary member may be chosen, it shall be 

 the duty of the Corresponding Secretaries in like manner to give him 

 notice of his election. 



