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C. Special. 
54. The Council may concur with any other learned Society in 
promoting any object embracing the advancement of Microscopical 
and Biological Science upon such terms as the Council may 
consider advantageous to the Society. 
VI. Officers. 
A. President and Vice-Presidents. 
55. The President shall take the Chair at all meetings of the 
Society or Council, and shall regulate the proceedings thereat. He 
shall be a member of all Committees appointed by the Council or by 
any General Meeting. 
56. In the case of an equality of votes at any Meeting, the Presi- 
dent shall be entitled to a second or casting vote. 
57. In the absence of the President from any Meeting, it shall be 
the duty of one of the Vice-Presidents to take the Chair, and he shall 
for the time being have all the authority and privileges of the 
President. 
B. Treasurer. 
58. The Treasurer shall be a Member of all Committees appointed 
by the Council, or by any General Meeting. He shall receive all 
moneys due to the Society, and shall pay therefrom only such amounts 
as may be ordered by the Council. 
59. All moneys received by 'the Treasurer shall be paid by him 
to the Society’s Bankers, a sum not exceeding 20 1. being retained for 
the payment of current expenses. 
60. The Treasurer shall keep in appropriate books proper and 
sufficient accounts in all necessary detail of the capital funds and 
expenditure of the Society so that the true financial state and con- 
dition of the Society may be at all times exhibited by such accounts. 
61. The Treasurer shall lay before the Council at their meeting 
in January a list of all Ordinary Fellows in arrear of their annual 
subscriptions. 
62. The accounts shall be audited annually by a professional 
Accountant to be appointed by the Council. Such Accountant 
shall have power of calling for all necessary books, papers, 
vouchers and information. 
63. The account so audited shall be signed by the Auditors, and 
laid before the next succeeding Annual Meeting. 
C. Secretaries , Librarian and Curator. 
64. The Secretaries shall be Members of all Committees appointed 
by the Council, or by any General Meeting. They shall take, or 
cause to be taken, minutes of the proceedings of all Meetings, and 
produce and read them at the ensuing Meetings ; they shall conduct 
the business and correspondence of the Society ; and shall discharge 
all such other duties as are usually discharged by Secretaries of 
Scientific Societies. 
