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8. At the Ordinary or Intermediate Meetings no question relating to 

 the Rules or General Management of the affairs of the Society shall be 

 introduced, discussed or determined. 



§ V. Bye-Laws (Council Meetings). 



1. The Council shall meet at least once every month from November 

 to June inclusive, or at any other time and on such days as they may 

 deem expedient. The President, or any three Members of the Council, 

 may at any time call a Special Meeting, to which the whole Council shall 

 be summoned. 



2. At Council Meetings three shall be a quorum ; the decision of the 

 majority shall be considered as the decision of the Meeting, and the 

 Chairman shall have a casting vote. 



3. Minutes of the Proceedings shall be taken by one of the Secretaries, 

 or, in case of his absence, by some other Member present, whom the 

 Chairman may appoint ; which Minutes shall afterwards be entered in a 

 minute-book kept for that purpose, and read at the next Meeting of the 

 Council, when, if found correct, they shall be signed by the Chairman. 



§ VI. Bye-Laws (Papers). 



1. Papers presented to be read before the Society shall, when read, be 

 considered as the property of the Society, unless there shall have been 

 any previous engagement with its author to the contrary; and the 

 Council may cause the same to be published in any way and at any time 

 they may think proper after having been read. If a Paper be not read, 

 it shall be returned to the author ; and, if a Paper be not published 

 within a reasonable time after having been read, the author shall be 

 entitled himself to publish it, and he may borrow it for that purpose. 



2. When a Paper is sent to the Society for the purpose of being read, it 

 shall be laid before the Council, who shall refer it to two of that body, or 

 of the other Members or Associates of the Society whom they may select, 

 for their opinions as to the character of the Paper and its fitness or 

 otherwise for being read before the Society, which they shall state as 

 briefly as may be, in writing, along with the grounds of their respective 

 opinions. Should one of such opinions be adverse to the Paper and 

 against its being read before the Society, then it shall be referred to some 

 other referee, who is unaware of the opinion already pronounced upou the 

 Paper, in order that he may state his opinion upon it in like manner. 

 Should this opinion be adverse to the Paper, the Council shall then 



