RULES OF THE SOCIETY, ix 



to all Members of the AJiatick Society, who may chuf * to attend 

 the meetings. 3d. That if the Pre fident of the Society be prefent 

 at a meeting of either Committee he mail prefide; io his abfence 

 one of the Vice Prefidents, and in their abfence the eldeft; Mem- 

 ber of the Society prefent at each meeting fhali be confide red as 

 Prefldent at fuch meeting. 4th. That the Secretary to the Afiatick 

 Society be requefled to a£t as Secretary to the Literary Commit- 

 tee, and the Affiilant Secretary to the Society be requefled to act 

 as Secretary to the Phyfical Committee, as far as their time and 

 avocations may admit. 5th. That a Deputy Secretary be alfo ap- 

 pointed for each Committee to be elected at the next meeting of the 

 two Committees refpeclively. 6th. That regularbooks of proceedings be 

 kept by the Secretaries for each Committee, in which minutes fhall be 

 entered of all papers, communications, and a6ts done by the Committee; 

 that fuch books be at all times open to the infpecTion of the Members 

 of the Afiatick Society ; and that fuch papers be laid before the Society 

 as the Committee may judge proper to be fubmitted. 7th. That the 

 correfpondence of each Committee be in general carried on through 

 itjs Secretary or Deputy j but that it be at the difcretion of the Com- 

 mittees to employ any one of their Members to correspond with any in* 

 dividual. 



