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§ VII. Bye- Laws (General). 



1. TPie government of the Society and the management of 

 its concerns are entrusted to the Council, subject to no other 

 restrictions than are herein imposed, and to no other inter- 

 ference than may arise from the acts of Members in General 

 Meeting assembled. 



2. With respect to the duties of the President, Vice- 

 Presidents, and other Officers and Members of Council, and 

 any other matters not herein specially provided for, the Council 

 may make such 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 promo- 

 tion 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, to be then confirmed or 

 otherwise, as such Meeting may think fit. 



