OKIGIXAL CHARTER OF THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 405 
summoned to attend the Meetings thereof), shall and may have power 
according to the best of their judgment and discretion to make and 
estahlish such By-Laws as they shall deem useful and necessary for the 
Kegulation of said Society, and of the Estate, Goods, and Business 
thereof, and for fixing and determining the times and places of meeting 
of the said Society, and also the times, place, and manner of electing, 
appointing, and removing all Fellows, Honorary Members, and Foreign 
Members of the said Society, and all such Subordinate Officers, Atten- 
dants, and Servants as shall be deemed necessary or useful for the said 
Society ; and also for filling up from time to time any vacancies which 
may happen by death, removal, or otherwise, in any of the Offices or 
Appointments constituted or established for the execution of the Business 
and Concerns of the said Society ; and also for regulating and ascertain- 
ing the qualifications of Persons to become Fellows, Honorary Members, 
and Foreign Members of the said Society respectively ; and also the Sum 
and Sums of Money to be paid by them respectively, whether upon 
admission or otherwise, towards carrying on the purposes of the said 
Society ; and such By-Laws, from time to time, to vary, alter, or revoke, 
and make such new and other By-Laws as they shall think most useful 
and expedient, so that the same be not repugnant to these Presents or 
the Laws of this our Realm. 
Provided that no By-Law hereafter to be made, or alteration or repeal 
of any By-Law^ wdiich shall hereafter have been established, by the said 
Council hereby appointed, or by the Council for the time being of the said 
Society, shall be considered to have passed and be bindnig on the 
said Society, until such By-Law or such alteration or repeal of any By- 
Law shall have been hung up in the Common Meeting-Room of the said 
Society, and been read by the President, or any one of the Vice-Presidents 
for the time being, at two successive General Meetings of the said Society, 
and until the same shall have been confirmed by Ballot by the Fellows at 
large of the said Society ; such Ballot to take place at the ensuing 
Meeting next after such two successive General Meetings of the said 
Society, seven at least of the Fellows of the said Society being then 
present : and Provided that no such By-Law^ or alteration or repeal of 
any By-Law, shall be deemed or taken to pass in the affirmative, unless 
it shall appear upon such Ballot that two-thirds of the Fellow^s present 
at such Meeting shall have voted for the same. 
Witness His Majesty at Westminster, the 17th day of April, in the 
Forty-ninth year of Our Reign. 
By Writ of Privy Seal, 
WILMOT. 
