Charter of the Royal Microscopical Society. 9 
sum of <=£] 000, computing the same respectively at the time 
of the purchase or acquisition thereof, and to act in all the 
concerns of the said body politic and corporate as effectually, 
to all intents and purposes, as any other of our liege subjects, 
or any other body politic or corporate in our said kingdom, 
not being under any disability, might do in their respective 
concerns. 
And we do hereby grant our special licence and authority 
unto all and every person and persons, bodies politic and 
corporate (otherwise competent), to grant, sell, alien, and 
convey in mortmain unto and to the use of the said body 
politic and corporate and their successors any messuages, 
lands, tenements, or hereditaments not exceeding such annual 
value as aforesaid. 
And our will and pleasure is, and we further grant and 
declare, that there shall be a General Meeting or General 
Meetings of the Fellows of the said Society to be held from 
time to time as hereinafter mentioned, and that there shall 
be a Council to direct and manage the concerns of the said 
body politic and corporate, and that the General Meetings 
and the Council shall have the entire direction and manage- 
ment of the same in the manner and subject to the regula- 
tions hereinafter mentioned. 
And we do hereby also will, grant, and declare that there 
shall be a President, Vice-Presidents, a Treasurer, and Secre- 
taries of the said body politic and corporate, and that the 
Council shall consist of the President, Vice-Presidents, Trea- 
surer, Secretaries, and not more than twelve nor less than 
eight other Fellows of the said Society. 
And we do hereby further will and declare that the said 
James Glaisher shall be the first President of the said body 
politic and corporate, and the other persons now being the 
Vice-Presidents, Treasurer, Secretaries, and Members of 
the Council shall be first Members of the Council, and shall 
continue such until the election of officers shall be made in 
pursuance of these presents. 
And we do hereby further will and declare that it shall be 
lawful for the Fellows of the said body politic and corporate 
hereby established to hold a General Meeting once in the year 
or oftener, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned; namely, 
that the President, Vice-Presidents, the Treasurer, the Secre- 
taries, and other Members of the Council, shall be chosen at 
such General Meeting, and that the General Meetings shall 
from time to time make and establish such bye-laws, and 
vary and alter or revoke the same, as they shall deem to be 
useful and necessary for the regulation of the said body politic 
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