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the concerns of the said body politic and corporate, 
and that the council shall consist of not more than 
thirty-one nor less than twenty-four members, of whom 
one shall be president, six shall be vice-presidents, and 
one shall be secretary ; and the members of the council, 
the president and vice-presidents, with the exception 
of the first president, who is appointed by these 
presents, shall be severally elected and appointed in 
manner hereinafter mentioned : AND WE DO 
HEREBY APPOINT, That the said Thomas 
Turner shall be the first president of the said body 
politic and corporate ; and that he shall remain the 
president until some other person is elected in his 
place or stead as hereinafter mentioned: AND WE 
DO FURTHER DECLARE, That the president, 
vice-presidents, and members of the council, shall be 
elected from and amongst the members of the said 
body politic and corporate : AND WE FURTHER 
DIRECT, That within four months from the date of 
these presents the first general meeting of the members 
of the body politic and corporate shall be held, and 
such meeting shall be held at the Freemasons’ Tavern, 
Great Queen Street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, in the said 
county of Middlesex ; and the said first president of the 
said body politic and corporate, or in case of his death 
the others or other of our aforesaid Petitioners, or the 
major part of them, or the survivor of them, if but one 
of them shall be then living, shall fix the day and hour 
for holding the said general meeting, and shall convene 
the same by advertisements published in the London 
Gazette and in two or more London and Dublin daily 
newspapers, and in two or more Edinburgh papers, at 
