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§ VII. Bye-Laws (General). 
1. The government of the Society and the management of 
its concerns are entrusted to the Council, subject to no other 
restrictions than are herein imposed, and to no other inter- 
ference than may arise from the acts of Members in General 
Meeting assembled. 
2. With respect to the duties of the President, Vice- 
Presidents, and other Officers and Members of Council, and 
any other matters not herein specially provided for, the Council 
may make such regulations and arrangements as they deem 
proper, and as shall appear to them most conducive to the good 
government and management of the Society, and the promo- 
tion of its objects. And the Council may hire apartments, 
and appoint persons not being Members of the Council, nor 
Members or Associates of the Institute, to be salaried officers, 
clerks, or servants, for carrying on the necessary business of 
the Society ; and may allow them respectively such salaries, 
gratuities, and privileges, as to them, the Council, may seem 
proper ; and they may suspend any such officer, clerk, or servant 
from his office and duties, whenever there shall seem to them 
occasion ; provided always, that every such appointment or 
suspension shall be reported by the Council to the next ensuing 
General Meeting of the Members, to be then confirmed or 
otherwise, as such Meeting may think fit. 
