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the question before tlie Council^ sliall retire during the con- 
sideration and discussion of the same. 
40. — The Council shall present^ and cause to be read to 
the Annual Meeting, a report on the general concerns of the 
Society for the preceding year ; and such report, or the sub- 
stance thereof, shall be printed under the direction of the 
Council, for distribution among the members. 
VIII. — The President and Vice-Presidents. 
41. — The President shall be in virtue of his office Chairman 
of the Council, and shall take the Chair at all Ordinary, 
Annual, or Extraordinary Meetings of the Society; he shall 
regulate the order of proceedings, and shall, ex officio, be 
a member of all Committees appointed by the Council. 
42. — In the absence of the President, one of the Yice- 
Presidents_, or in their absence the Treasurer or one of the 
members of Council, shall take the Chair and conduct the 
business of the Meeting ; and in the case of the absence of 
all those officers, the Meeting may elect any other member 
present to take the Chair. 
43. — No member shall be eligible as President or Vice- 
President of the Society for more than two years in succes- 
sion ; and two of the Vice-Presidents shall retire annually. 
IX. — The Treasurer. 
44. — It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to receive all 
sums of money due to the Society, and to pay therefrom only 
such amounts as may be ordered by the Council. 
45. — He shall keep an account of such receipts and pay- 
ments, and shall produce the same at all Meetings of the 
Council. 
46. — The Treasurer shall pay all moneys received by him 
into the hands of the Society^s banker, retaining a sum not 
exceeding £30 for the payment of current expenses, 
a.— The Secretaries. 
47. — It shall be the duty of the Secretaries to attend all 
Meetings of the Society and Council. 
48. — They shall take, or cause to be taken by the Assistant 
Secretary, minutes of the proceedings_j and prodlive aiul read 
