Bye-Laws. 
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FiNANCKS. 
G2. The Finance Committee shall have the immediate care of Finances, 
the Society's accounts, and no payment of money shall be made 
excepting at a Monthly Council, and unless recommended by the 
Report of the Finance Committee, which shall always meet on 
the first Wednesday in every month, without summons, pre- Time of meet- 
viously to the sitting of the Council, in order to prepare a Eeport [jjp"^^j 
on the state of the Society's funds, which they shall present 
to each Monthly Meeting, and lay before it the following 
account : — 
Monthly Cash Account, ending 
Balance of petty cash in 1 
tlie hands of the Secre-> 
tary last month . . | 
£. s. d. 
Payments by order ofl 
the Council . . ./ 
£. s. d. 
Balance at the bankers' • 
Amount of cash received' 
during the past month 
by the Secretary, and 
paid into the hands of 
Messrs. Drnnimond, as 
per bankers' receipts . 
Ditto, received by Messrs. ] 
Drummond on account 1 
of the Society, as per | 
bankers' book . 
Amount of expenditure'^ 
of petty cash . . ./ 
Balance in hand 
Bankers. 
Secretary . . . 
and a statement of the payments recommended to be made, toge- 
ther with all the books in which entries of cash receipts or pay- 
ments are made, and such documents as the business of the 
day may require. Should a suiBcient number of Members of the 
Finance Committee to form a quorum not have assembled on the 
first Wednesday of any month, the Secretary shall report the 
state of the Society's funds to the Council. 
63. Twice in every year — namely, on the Friday previously to Audit, 
each of the London General Meetings — there shall be an audit of 
the accounts of the Society at eleven o'clock, when a balance- 
sheet shall be prepared and reported to the General Meeting, 
and such balance-sheet published in the ensuing part of the 
Journal. The Auditors shall consist of the President, the Auditors. 
Trustees, the Membeis of the Finance Committee, and of three 
Members not being Members of the Council or of any of the 
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