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16. — The coarse of business at the General Meetings 

 shall be as follows : 



1. — The minutes of the preceding meeting shall be 



read and signed by the president, or whoever 

 may in his absence occupy the chair. 



2. — Any specific or particular business which the 



Committee may have appointed for the consider- 

 ation of the meeting shall be proceeded with. 



3. — Candidates proposed and seconded shall be bal- 



lotted for. 



4. — Donations shall be laid before the meeting. 



5. — Papers and Communications shall be read and 



discussed. 



17. — Committee Meetings shall be held once a month at 

 convenient times. 



1.8. — There shall be monthly evening meetings held for 

 discussing Papers read at General Meetings, and for pro- 

 moting the general objects of the Society* 



19. — Communications and papers read may be printed at 

 the expense of the Society under the title of the Journal 

 of the Asiatic Society of Ceylon, but not until the Meet- 

 ing next following that on which they were read, when it 

 shall be decided by vote whether they be so printed or be 

 kept amongst the manuscript records of the Society, or be 

 returned to the Author if he so desire it. 



20. — -That every Resident Member shall be entitled to 

 receive two copies of the Society's Journal, and every Ho- 

 norary or Corresponding Member receive one copy, the 

 remainder to be sold or otherwise distributed. 



21. — A special Meeting may be called at any time b}^ the 

 General Committee, or by the Secretary on the requisition 

 of five Members of the Society, due notice being given by 

 the Secretary of the time and object of the meeting. 



22. — Sub Committees or Committees of enquiry may be 

 formed for any specific object or research, but these must 

 be .named at a General Meeting. 



23. — An Anniversary Meeting shall be held for the pur- 

 pose of electing new Office Bearers and Committees, to 

 receive the various reports of Committees for the past year, 

 and to receive and pass the Treasurer's accounts. 



