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NEW CHAETEE AND AGREEMENTS. 



anywise howsoeyer, and that they shall be respectively indemnified by or from 

 tlie funds or property of " the Society " against all losses, costs, damages, and 

 expenses, by reason or in consequence of the said arrangement, or the 

 execution of the said Articles of Agreement or in relation thereto. 



15. And We do ftu'ther declare and grant that the Council for the time 

 being of " the Society," or any five or more of them (all the members thereof 

 having been first duly summoned to attend the meetings thereof), shall and 

 may have power, according to the best of their judgment and discretion, to 

 make and establish such bye-laws as they shall deem useful and necessary 

 for the regulation of " the Society," and of the estate, goods, and business 

 thereof, and for caiTying into effect, on behalf of "the Society," the said 

 arrangement between the Commissioners and the first-mentioned Society, and 

 the said several articles of Agreement, and the affairs in general of " the 

 Society," and all matters or things in anywise relating thereto, and such bj-e- 

 laws from time to time to vary, alter, or revoke, and make such new and other 

 bye-laws as they shall think most useftil and expedient, so that the same be 

 not repugnant to these presents or the laws of this Our realm. And fui'ther 

 that the present existuig bye-laws of the said Society shall continue in force 

 in their integrity, and shall be binding upon the Society hereby incoi'porated 

 and the Members thereof, except and in so far as they shall bo repealed or 

 altered by any bye-law hereafter to be made by " the Society." 



16. Provided that no bye-law hereafter to be made or alteration or repeal 

 of any bye-law which shall hereafter have been established by the said 

 Council hereby appointed, or by the Council for the time being of "the 

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

 mitil such bye-law, or such alteration or repeal of any bye-law, shall have been 

 adopted or confirmed at some general meeting of the Fellows at large of " the 

 Society," either with or subject to any additions or amendments to or in the 

 same which shall be resolved upon or adopted by such meeting (it being 

 competent for any Fellow present at such meeting to propose or move any 

 such addition or amendment) or in its integrity. The votes upon such bye- 

 laws or any of them or the alteration or repeal in or of any such bye-laws or 

 bye-law, or upon any motion or resolution relating thereto, to be by open 

 voting, unless any five Fellows present shall object to open voting, and shall 

 require, by notice in writing to that effect signed by them and delivered to 

 the chairman, the voting to be by ballot. In the case of open voting, the 

 majority shall bind the minority, tlie Chainnan may vote, and in case of 

 equality may give a second or casting vote ; and provided that in the case of 

 a ballot (but not in the ease of open voting) no bye-law or alteration or repeal 

 of any bye-law, shall be deemed or taken to pass in the affirmative, unless it 

 shall appear that two-thirds of the Fellows voting shall have voted for the 

 same. In every case of voting by ballot two Scrutineers shall be at once 

 appointed by the Chairman, the Fellows present may proceed forthwith to 

 vote, and the meeting shall be adjom-ned to some day, not beuig less than five 



ment with 

 the Com- 

 missioners. 



The Council 

 empowered 

 to malvc 

 byc-l;iws. 



Bye-laws to 

 be conlirmed 

 at a General 

 Meeting of 

 FeUows. 



Amend- 

 ments may 

 be miide .at 

 the meeting 

 ill liye-laws 

 proposed by 

 the Council. 



Voting may 

 be open or 

 bybaUot, i( 

 required by 

 five Fellows 

 jircsent. 



