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3. The Council may authorise Papers to be read without 
such previous reference for an opinion thereon; and when a 
Paper has been referred, and the opinion is in favour of its 
being read in whole or in part, the Council shall then cause it 
to be placed in the List of Papers to be so read accordingly, 
and the author shall receive due notice of the evening fixed 
for its reading. 
4. The authors of Papers read before the Society shall, if 
they desire it, be presented with twenty-five separate copies of 
their Paper with the discussion thereon, or with such other 
number as may be determined upon by the Council. 
§ 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 the 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 promotion 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 neces- 
sary 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 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 to such meeting may 
seem good. 
