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ROYAL MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY. 
tendence of all the other affairs of the said Society, and shall and may, 
but not inconsistently with or contrary to the provisions of this our 
Charter, or any existing by-law, or the laws and statutes of this our 
realm, do all such acts and deeds as shall appear to them necessary 
for carrying into effect the objects and views of the said body politic 
and corporate. 
Provided always, and we do will and declare that the Council 
shall, from time to time, render to a General Meeting a full account 
of their proceedings, and that every Fellow of the Society may at all 
reasonable times, to be fixed by the said Council, see and examine the 
accounts of the receipts and payments of the said body politic and 
corporate. 
And we further will, grant, and declare that the whole property 
of the said body politic and corporate shall be vested, and we do hereby 
vest the same, solely and absolutely in the Fellows thereof, and that 
they shall have full power and authority to sell, alienate, charge, and 
otherwise dispose of the same as they shall think proper, but that no 
sale, mortgage, incumbrance, or other disposition of any messuages, 
lands, tenements, or hereditaments belonging to the said body politic 
and corporate shall be made, except with the approbation and con- 
currence of a General Meeting. 
And we lastly declare it to be our Royal will and pleasure 
that no resolution or by-law shall, on any account or pretence what- 
soever, be made by the said body politic and corporate, in opposition 
to the general scope, true intent, and meaning of this our Charter, or 
the Laws or Statutes of our Realm : And that if any such rule or 
by-law shall be made, the same shall be absolutely null and void to 
all intents, effects, constructions and purposes whatsoever. 
In witness whereof we have caused these our Letters to 
be made Patent. 
Witness ourself, at our Palace at Westminster, this twenty- 
eighth day of August in the thirtieth year of our reign. 
By Her Majesty’s Command. 
(Signed) CARDEW. 
