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2. Witli respect to the duties of the President, Vice-Presidents 

 and other Officers and Members of Counci], and any other matters not 

 herein specially provided for, the Council may make any regulations and 

 arrangements as they deem proper, and as shall appear to them most 

 conducive to the good government and management of the Society, and 

 the promotion of its objects. And the Council may hire apartments, and 

 appoint persons not being Members of the Council, nor Members or 

 Associates of the Institute, to be salaried officers, clerks, or servants, for 

 carrying on the necessary business of the Society ; and may allow them 

 respectively such salaries, gratuities, and privileges, as to them, the 

 Council, may seem proper ; and they may suspend any such officer, clerk 

 or servant from his office and duties, whenever there shall seem to them 

 occasion ; provided always, that every such appointment or suspension 

 shall be reported by the Council to the next ensuing General Meeting of 

 the Members and Associates to be then confirmed or otherwise as such 

 Meeting may think fit. 



