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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 
author; and if a Paper be not published within a reasonable 
time after having been read, the author shall be entitled himself 
to publish it, and he may borrow it for that purpose. 
2. When a Paper is sent to the Society for the purpose of 
being read, it shall be laid before the Council, who shall refer 
it to two of their own body, or of the other Members or Asso- 
ciates of the Society whom they may select, for their opinions 
as to the character of the Paper and its fitness or otherwise for 
being read before the Society, which they shall state as briefly 
as may be, in writing, along with the grounds of their re- 
spective opinions. Should one of such opinions be adverse to 
the Paper and against its being read before the Society, then 
it shall be referred to some other referee, who is unaware of the 
