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Rules and Regulations, 



[2.] The Treasurer shall receive, collect, and pay out all monies on 

 behalf of the Society, keep an account thereof with the vouchers, 

 and submit a statement of the pecuniary affairs of the Society to 

 the Anniversary Meeting, and at other times as may be required. 



[3.] The Secretary shall arrange, give notice of, and attend, all 

 meetings of the Society and of the Committee, and recoid their 

 proceedings ; he shall also edit the Journal, and exercise a general 

 superintendence under the authority of the Committee. 



[4.] The Librarian, Curator of the Museum, and Conservator of the 

 scientific instruments belonging to the Society, will take charge 

 of the books and other articles committed to them respectively, 

 keep a correct list thereof, and generally conform in their manage- 

 ment to the Rules of the Society in that behalf, or in the absence 

 of such, to the directions of the Committee; having respect at all 

 times to the safety and proper condition of the articles, and to the 

 interests of the Society in their increase and improvement: The 

 Curator of the Museum, in particular, taking care to superintend 

 the reception of all articles in that Department, transmitted to the 

 Society, and have the same speedily submitted to examination and 

 reported on, and suitably arranged. 



9. The affairs of the Society shall be managed by a Committee of 

 five Members in addition to Office-bearers, elected in like manner ; but 

 subject always to the Rules and Regulations passed at General Meetings ; 

 three to be a quorum. 



10. Any person desirous of becoming a Member of the Society, must 

 be proposed and seconded by Members personally, or by letter under 

 the hand of such Members, at some General Meeting of the Society, and 

 be elected by ballot at the next General Meeting; none to be considered 

 as elected, unless he has in his favour two-thirds of the votes given. 



11. A General Meeting of the Society shall be held Quarterly, namely 

 on the 7th day of February or first lawful day thereafter, and in the first 

 week of the months of May, August and November, and at such other 

 times as may be determined by the Committee : due notice of the Meeting, 

 and of any intended motion which does not come through the Committee, 

 except the nomination of new members, being always first given by the 

 Secretary. 



12. All papers and other communications to the Society shall be read 

 and submitted at a General Meeting by some Member of the Society, 

 except in the case of communications from individuals not Members ; when, 

 if the meeting think fit, the same may be read by the author. 



