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Constitution and haws of 
8rcl. The lists of candidates for election and for sus- 
pension shall be read,, and the ballot for the 
election of members shall take place. 
4th. Scientific communications shall be read and dis- 
cussed. 
29. — The Chair shall be vacated at 9 o^clock; or as soon 
after as may be convenient ; and the Society shall resolve 
itself into a Conversazione. 
30. — At the Ordinary Meetings nothing relating to the 
LawS; or. to the enactment of new Laws, shall be introduced 
or discussed. 
VI. — The Auditors, 
31. — Two Auditors shall be appalnted by the Society at 
the Ordinary Meeting in January. 
32. — They shall audit the Treasurer's accounts^ and pro- 
duce their report to the Annual Meeting of the Society, to 
be held in February. They shall have the power of calling 
for all necessary accounts and vouchers. 
33. — No member of the Council shall be eligible as an 
Auditor. 
VII. — Council. 
34. — The business of the Society shall be conducted by 
the President, four Vice-Presidents, Treasurer, and two 
Secretaries, who, with twelve other members, together with 
the past Presidents elected previous to the year 1866, shall 
constitute the Council ; and at all meetings of the Council 
five shall be a quorum. 
35. — Pour of the twelve members of the Council shall 
retire annually, and four new members] shall be elected in 
their places. 
36. — The Council shall hold their Ordinary Meetings on 
the day of the Ordinary Meetings of the Society. 
37. — Extraordinary Meetings may be held at the discretion 
of the President, who shall direct the Secretaries to issue 
^especial summonses for the occasion. 
38. — The ordinary mode of decision on' questions before 
the Council shall be by show of hands, unless a ballot shall 
be demanded. 
30.-- -Any member who shall be personally interested in 
