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other lands, tenements and hereditaments not exceeding in the whole the 
annual value of £5,000, without incurring the penalties or forfeitures of 
the Statutes of ^Mortmain or any of them. And with power by the name 
aforesaid to sue and be sued, and to act and do in all things in as ample 
manner and form as any other body politic or corporate in our United 
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland may or can act and do. 
II. 
The several persons now Fellows or Members of the Society shall 
continue or be Fellows or Members of the Society hereby incorporated, 
and shall continue and be subject and liable to all such duties and 
obligations as they are now subject or liable to as Fellows or Members of 
the Society, or such other duties and obligations as may be from time to 
time prescribed by bye-laws. Subject as aforesaid, the Society hereby 
incorporated shall consist of Fellows or Members of such classes and 
designations as may be from tune to time prescribed by bye-laws. 
III. 
The government of the Society hereby incorporated, and of its 
business and affairs, shall be vested in a Council consistmg of fifteen 
persons being Fellows of such Society. 
IV. 
The persons who are now members of the Council of the Society 
shall be Members of the Council of the Society hereby incorporated, 
and shall hold office till the Annual Meeting of such Society in the 
year 1900. 
At that Annual Meeting, and at the Annual Meeting in every 
succeeding year, one-fifth of the Members shall retire from office, and 
their places shall be filled by election of three Members at the Annual 
Meeting, but no Fellow shall be capable of being so elected unless he 
shall have been nominated in writing by two or more Fellows fourteen 
days prior to the Annual Meeting, in such manner as may be from time 
to time prescribed by bye-laws. 
At the Annual Meetings in the years 1900, 1901, 1902, and 1908, 
the Council shall prescribe the one-fifth of the original Members who 
are to retire, and in succeeding years the one-fifth of the Members who 
have been longest in office shall retire. Retiring Members shall, in all 
cases, unless disqualified under some bye-law for the time being in force, 
be re-eligible. 
V. 
The Officers of the Society hereby incorporated shall be a President, 
one or more Vice-Presidents, a Treasurer, and a Secretary, and such 
other officers as may be from time to time prescribe! by bye-laws. 
