Laii'S, Bye-LaiL's, and Regulations. 
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Each Committee, at its first Meeting, shall elect its own permanent 
Chairman, who shall always take the chair at the Committee, when pre- 
sent ; the chair being taken in his absence by a Chairman to be elected 
by the Committee for the occasion : and all Committees shall meet by 
summons issued by direction of their respective Chairmen, or the Pre- 
sident, or of any three Members of the Committee, or by adjournment. 
The President, Trustees, and Vice-Presidents, are Members ex officio 
of all Committees. 
All Committees during their sittings may report the progress of their 
proceedings to the Monthly Meetings of the Council : such Committees 
shall sit till they have made their respective general reports; but in case 
such reports shall not have been made previously to the 31st of De- 
cember next following their appointment, their powers shall then cease. 
Secretary. 
The Secretary shall devote the ■whole of his time to the affairs of 
the Society, and shall be immediately responsible to the Council for the 
discharge of the various duties they require him to perform. He shall 
attend the sittings of all Meetings of the Council. He shall also attend 
on any Committee requiring his presence, when not in attendance on 
the Council. He shall take the minutes of the Council ; and also, when 
attending upon any Committee, the minutes of such Committee, if re- 
quired to do so by the Chairman. He shall conduct the correspondence 
of the Society, preserving the letters he may receive in a classed arrange- 
ment. He shall keep letter-books, in which copies of all letters received 
by him, which he shall lay before the Council or any of the Committees, 
shall be entered, as well as copies of all those which he writes by direc- 
tion of the President, Council, or Committees. Under the direction of 
the Finance Committee he shall receive or be responsible for all moneys 
received at the rooms of the Society, paying such sums into the hands 
of the Bankers, and producing at each Finance Committee their receipts 
for the same. He shall have the charge of the expenditure of petty 
cash : he shall have the custody of all books, models, and papers belong- 
ing to the Society. He shall have the immediate superintendence over 
the Clerks and the Servants of the Society ; and shall be required to 
report to the Council any instances of misconduct on their part which 
he thinks of such a nature as to require the consideration of the Council. 
Agreeably with the Charter, the President and Council have the power 
by him, as their Secretary, of suing or being sued, and of contracting or 
discharging obligations, according to the special nature of the authority 
with which they may from time to time invest him, as their representa- 
tive, for these several objects. 
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