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decide whether the Paper shall be rejected or read ; and, if rejected, 
the Paper shall be returned to the author with an intimation of the 
purport of the adverse opinions which have been given with respect 
to it ; but the names of the referees are not to be communicated to 
him, unless with their consent or by order of the Council. All such 
references and communications are to be regarded as confidential, 
except in so far as the Council may please to direct otherwise. 
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 restric- 
tions than are herein imposed, and to no other interference 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 regu- 
lations 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 necessary business ot 
the Society ; and may allow them respectively such salaries, gra- 
tuities, 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. 
