10 Charter of the Royal Microscopical Society. 
and corporate, for the admission of Fellows and of Honorary 
and Foreign Members, and for the fixing the number of the 
Vice-Presidents and Officers, and for the management of the 
proceedings, and the estates, goods, and business of the saicL 
body politic and corporate, so that such bye-laws be not 
repugnant to these presents, or to the laws and statutes of this 
our realm ; and shall and may also enter into any resolution 
and make any regulation respecting the affairs of the said 
body politic and corporate that may be necessary and proper : 
And we do further will and declare that the General 
Meetings shall take place at such time as may be fixed by the 
said Council, and that the present regulations of the said 
Society, so far as they are not inconsistent with these pre- 
sents, shall continue in force until the same shall be altered 
by a General Meeting. 
And we further will, grant, and declare that the Council 
shall have the sole management of the income and funds of 
the said body politic and corporate, and the appointment of 
librarian, curator, and such other officers, attendants, and 
servants as the Council shall think necessary or useful, as also 
the entire management and superintendence of all the other 
affairs of the said Society, and shall and may, but not incon- 
sistently with or contrary to the provisions of this our Charter, 
or any existing bye-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 pro- 
perty 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, mort- 
gage, 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 appro- 
bation and concurrence of a General Meeting. 
And we lastly declare it to be our Royal will and plea- 
sure that no resolution or bye-law shall, on any account or 
pretence whatsoever, be made by the said body politic and 
