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VI. Any mone}* grant by the Committee of Science of, or over, £20 

 shall be subject to approval of Council and of the Academy. 



VII. The salaries and wages of officers and persons employed, under 

 sanction of the Council, as also postages and contingencies, may be 

 paid from time to time by the Treasurer as they become due, without 

 order from Council or Committees. 



VIII. The sanction of the Academy shall be requisite for the 

 expenditure of any sum exceeding £20 not included in the Estimate for 

 the year. 



\_This will supersede the following Section 4, of Chapter VII. , page 27, 

 which it is proposed to repeal : — 



Provided always that if any sum or sums of money, not exceeding 

 £20, shall be disposed of by the Council, between any two meetings of 

 the Academy, the act of Council shall be definite.] 



IX. No portion of the Academy's funded or other property shall 

 be transferred, sold, or disposed of, except upon recommendation of 

 Council, sanctioned by vote of the Academy. 



Of the Corporate Seal of the Academy. 



I. The Corporate Seal of the Academy shall be in the joint custody 

 of the President and Treasurer for the time being. 



II. The President, and during his absence, such Vice-President as 

 he may authorize in due form, and the Treasurer, or such other Officer 

 as the Council may appoint, shall be the parties to attest the affixing of 

 the Corporate Seal of the Academy to documents. 



III. The Corporate Seal of the Academy shall not be affixed to any 

 instrument for sale or transfer of any of the Academy's funded or other 

 property, unless by vote of the Academy, on recommendation of 

 Council. 



Read : — 



A letter from the Honorary Secretaries of the Royal "Geological 

 Society of Ireland, requesting the co-operation of the Academy in mak- 

 ing an application to the Government in behalf of the widow and 

 orphans of the late George V. Du Noyer, with a view of obtaining for 

 them a pension from the Civil List for Literary Pensions ; whereupon 

 it was resolved : — 



" That the President and Vice-Presidents of the Academy, with 

 power to add to their number, be requested to act as a Committee to 

 communicate with the Royal Geological Society and other bodies, with 

 reference to a memorial to the Government on behalf of the widow and 

 children of the late George V. Du Noyer." 



Donations were presented, and thanks voted to the donors. 



