RULES AND REGULATIONS. 



\Mem. — The Asiatic Society of Ceylon was instituted 7th February 

 1845; and by the unanimous yote of a Special General Meeting of 

 the Royal Asiatic Society, held on the 7th February 1846, it was 

 declared a Branch of that Society, under the designation of the 

 Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society.] 



1. The design of the Society is to institute and promote enquiries into 

 the History, Religion, Literature, Arts and Social Condition of the present 

 and former inhabitants of this Island, with its Geology and Mineralogy, 

 its Climate and Meteorology, its Botany and Zoology. 



2. The Society shall consist of resident or ordinary, honorary and 

 corresponding Members ; all elected by ballot at some General Meeting 

 of the Society. 



3. Members residing in any part of Ceylon are considered resident. 



4. Persons who contribute to the objects of the Society in an eminent 

 and distinguished manner, are eligible as honorary Members. 



5. Persons residing at a distance from Colombo may, iipon special 

 grounds, and with the recommendation of the Committee, be elected 

 corresponding members. 



6. Honorary and corresponding members shall not be subject to any 

 fee on entrance, or any annual contribution, and are to be admitted to 

 the meetings of the Society and to the privilege of the Library, but are 

 not to vote at meetings, or be elected to any of its offices, or take any 

 part in its private business. 



7. Every ordinary Member of the Society shall pay on admission a 

 fee of half a guinea, and an annual subscription of one guinea. 



8. The Office-bearers of the Society shall be, a President, Vice-Presi- 

 dent, Treasurer and Secretary, with a Librarian, Curator of the Museum, 

 and Conservator of the Meteorological and other scientific instruments of 

 the Society : — all appointed from time to time by open vote at some 

 General Meeting of the Society ; and their functions shall be as follows : — 



[1.] The President, and in his absence the Vice-President, shall take 

 the Chair at all meetings of the Society and of the Committee, 

 maintain order, collect the votes, and cause the laws of the Society 

 to be observed and enforced. 

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