X. 



Interpretation 

 clause 



Incorporation 

 clause. 



Rules and by- 

 laws. 



Charles Smith Wilkinson Esquire Government Geologist 

 Members of the Council. And whereas it is expedient that 

 the said Society should be incorporated and should be in- 

 vested with the powers and authorities hereinafter contained 

 Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent 

 Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legisla- 

 tive Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales 

 in Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same 

 as follows : — 



1. For the purposes of this Act the following words in 

 inverted commas shall unless the context otherwise indicate 

 bear the meaning set against them respectively — 



" Corporation " the Society hereby incorporated. 



"Council" the Members of the Council at any duly con- 

 vened meeting thereof at which a quorum according 

 to the by-laws at the time being shall be present 



" Secretary " such person or either one of such persons 

 who shall for the time being be the Secretary or 

 Secretaries honorary or otherwise of the said Society 

 (saving and excepting any Assistant Secretary of 

 the said Society.) 



2. The Honorary President the President Vice-Presidents 

 Officers and Members of the said Society for the time being 

 and all persons who shall in manner provided by the rules 

 and by-laws for the time being of the said Society become 

 members thereof shail be for the purposes hereinafter 

 mentioned a body corporate by the name or style of " The 

 Royal Society of New South Wales " and by that name 

 shall and may have perpetual succession and a common seal 

 and shall and may enter into contracts and sue and be sued 

 plead and be impleaded answer and be answered unto defend 

 and be defended in all Courts and places whatsoever and 

 may prefer lay and prosecute any indictment information 

 and prosecution against any person whomsoever and any 

 summons or other writ and any notice or other proceeding 

 which it may be requisite to serve upon the Corporation 

 may be served upon the Secretary or one of the Secretaries 

 as the case may be or if there be no Secretary or if the 

 Secretaries or Secretary be absent from the Colony then 

 upon the President or either of the Vice-Presidents. 



3. The present rules and by-laws of the said Society shall 

 be deemed and considered to be and shall be the rules and 

 by-laws of the said Corporation save and except in so far as 

 any of them are or shall or may be altered varied or repealed 

 under the powers for that purpose therein contained or are 



