XXXIV 
Laws, Bye-Laws, and Regulatims. 
The Council shall have tlie power of appointing and removing 
such Clerks and servants as they may deem necessary ; and of fixing 
their salaries. 
Finances. 
The Finance Committee shall have the immediate care of the So- 
ciety'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, previously to the sitting of the Council, 
in order to prepare a Report on the state of the Society's funds, which 
they shall present to each Monthly Meeting ; and lay before it the 
following account : — 
Amount of Cash received 
during the past month by 
file Secretary, and paid I 
into the hands of Messrs. 
Drummond, as per Bank- 
ers' receipts . . 
£. s, d. 
Payments by order of the! 
Council . . . . j 
£. *. d. 
Ditto, received by Messrs. ^ 
Drummond on account of 1 
the Society, as per Bankers' | 
Amount of expenditure) 
of Petty Cash . . . J 
Balance of Petty Cash in the) 
hands of the Secretary . J 
Balance at the Bankers' . 
Outstanding Bills • 
together 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 sufficient number of Members to form a quorum not 
have assembled on the first Wednesday of any month, the Secretary shall 
report the balance-sheet of the Society's fimds to the Council. 
Twice in every year — namely, on the Friday previously to 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 pub- 
lished in the ensuing part of the Journal. The Auditors shall consist of 
the President, the IVIcmbers of the Finance Committee, and of three 
Members not being Members of the Council or of nnv of the Com- 
mittees (of whom two shall always be present) to be chosen at the 
