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8. At the Ordinary or Intermediate Meetings no question 
relating to the Rules or General Management of the affairs of 
the Society shall be introduced, discussed, or determined ; but 
At the First Ordinary Meeting in each month, Members having notices 
of motion on matters of detail relating to the Institute, shall give 
such notices in writing, after the Minutes have been read and con- 
firmed, and any announcements in regard to elections have been 
made, and at no other time. Each notice shall be signed by its 
mover and seconder. Such notices will be fixed up in the reading- 
room, and considered at the following Ordinary Meeting, provided 
the mover be then present to explain his views ; the discussion of 
the same to terminate not later than half-past 8 o’clock. For these 
purposes all Ordinary Meetings shall be considered Special. 
§ V. Bye-Laws (Council Meetings). 
1. The Council shall meet at least once every month from 
November to June inclusive, or at any other time and on 
such days as they may deem expedient. The President, or any 
three Members of the Council, may at any time call a Special 
Meeting, to which the whole Council shall be summoned. 
2. At Council Meetings three shall be a quorum ; the decision 
of the majority shall be considered as the decision of the 
Meeting, and the Chairman shall have a casting vote. 
3. Minutes of the proceedings shall be taken by one of the 
Secretaries, or, in case of his absence, by some other Member 
present, whom the Chairman may appoint ; which minutes shall 
afterwards be entered in a minute-book kept for that purpose, 
and read at the next Meeting of the Council, when, if found 
correct, they shall be signed by the Chairman. 
§ VI. Bye-Laws (Papers). 
1. Papers presented to be read before the Society shall, when 
read, be considered as the property of the Society, unless there 
shall have been any previous engagement with its author to the 
contrary; and the Council may cause the same to be published 
in any way and at any time they may think proper after having 
been read. If a Paper be not read, it shall be returned to the 
