THE ORIGINAL CHARTER. 



the Meetings thereof), shall and may have power according to the best of 

 their judgment and discretion to make and establish such By-Laws as they 

 shall deem useful and necessary for the Regulation of said Society, and of the 

 Estate, Goods, and Business thereof, and for fixing and determining the times 

 and places of meeting of the said Society, and also the times, place, and 

 manner of electing, appointing, and removing all Fellows, Honoraiy Members, 

 and Foreign Members of the said Society, and all such Subordinate Officers, 

 Attendants, and Servants as shall be deemed necessary or useful for the said 

 Society ; and also for filling up from time to time any vacancies which may 

 happen by death, removal, or otherwise, in any of the Offices or Appointments 

 constituted or established for the execution of the Business and Concerns of 

 the said Society ; and also for regulating and ascertaining the qualifications 

 of Persons to become Fellows, Honorary Members, and Foreign Members of 

 the said Society, respectively ; and also the Sum and Sums of Money to be 

 paid by them respectively, whether upon admission or otherwise, towards 

 carryuig on the purposes of the said Society ; and such By-Laws, from time 

 to time, to vary, alter, or revoke, and make such new and other By-Laws as 

 they shall think most useful and expedient, so that the same be not repugnant 

 to these Presents or the Laws of this our Realm. 



Provided that no By-Law hereafter to be made, or alteration or repeal of By-Laws to 



^ be conlirmeo 



any By-Law which shall hereafter have been established, by the said Council by Baiiot at 



a General 



hereby appointed, or by the Council for the time being of the said Society, Meeting, 

 shall be considered to have passed and be binding on the said Society, until 

 such By-Law or such alteration or repeal of any By-Law shall have been hung 

 up in the Common Meeting-Room of the said Society, and been read by the 

 President, or any one of the Vice-Presidents for the time being, at two 

 successive General Meetings of the said Society, and until the same shall have 

 been confirmed by Ballot by the Fellows at large of the said Society ; such 

 Ballot to take place at the ensuing Meeting next after such two Successive 

 General Meetings of the said Society, seven at least of the Fellows of the said 

 Society being then present : and Provided that no such By-Law, or alteration 

 or repeal of any By-Law, shall be deemed or taken to pass in the affirmative, 

 unless it shall appear upon such Ballot that two-thirds of the Fellows present 

 at such Meeting shall have voted for the same. 



Witness His Majesty at Westminster, the 17th day of April, in the Forty- 

 ninth year of Our Reign. 



By Writ of Privy Seal, 



WILMOT. 



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