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all the correspondence in any way connected with the Society at the next meeting 
after such uirrespomience shall have been received or taken place ; to take 
minutes of the proceedings at meetings of the Society and the Council ; to assist 
in editing the Journal or Transactions of the Society; to send out all necessary 
notices and circulars, to distribute such copies of the Society’s publications to 
such persons, Societies, and Institutions as the Council shall direct ; to keep a 
petty cash book fully entered up, as to expenditure for postages, and necessary 
items, which shall be approved by the Council to be paid by him, out of such 
amounts as the Treasurer shall be authorised to hand to him for the purpose from 
time to time by the Council ; and to produce the book at all meetings of the 
Council, and, generally to act under the direction of the Council in all matters 
connected with the welfare of the Society. 
11. in the event of the absence from any meeting of the Society, or the 
Council, minutes of the proceedings shall be taken by a Member of the Council, 
whom the President shall appoint for the occasion, and such member shall not 
refuse to act. 
TREASURER. 
12. The Treasurer shall keep a list of all Members of the Society showing the 
date up to which each Member shall have paid his annual subscription. 
13. A'l moneys received on the Society’s behalf shall be paid into an account 
in the name of the Society in the Government Savings Bank, Perth. 
14. No monies shall be drawn out of the said account except by cheque drawn 
by the Treasurer, and countersigned by the Secretary, and no claims on the Society 
shall be paid except by such cheques, or out of the petty cash from time to time 
authorised by the Council to be paid into the hands of the Secretary. 
15. All accounts not paid out of petty cash must be submitted to, and 
authorised by the Council before payment. 
LIBRARIAN. 
16. The Librarian shall keep a catalogue up to date of all books, instruments, 
specimens, and other property of the Society, with the name of donors, or how 
obtained. He shall keep a record of all property issued to members, and see that 
the sama are returned in good order and condition. 
LIBRARY REGULATIONS. 
17. No Member shall, without special permission of the Council, be allowed 
to borrow mure than two volumes at one time from the library or to retain any 
volume longer than one month ; but if such volume be not required by any other 
Member, it may be re-issued to such borrower at the discretion of the Librarian 
until the following monthly meeting. 
18. If any book or property be torn, injured, lost, or not forthcoming when 
demanded by the Librarian, the Council shall demand full compensation for such 
injury or loss by the borrower. 
19. The Librarian shall call in all books, instruments or other property, 
borrowed from the Society, before the 15th day of June in each year, so that the 
same can be properly checked for the Annnal Meeting Report. In all cases in 
which the borrowers do not return their borrowed property at the ensuing monthly 
meeting, the Librarian shall by notice demand the return of same, and if such 
notice be not complied with, he shall report the same to the Council, who shall 
then direct a second notice to be sent to the Member retaining such book or 
property, and in ease the same be not returned before the next monthly meeting, 
such Member shall in future be disqualified from borrowing from the Library 
without the special permission of the Council. 
20. The Library shall be open to Members at the monthly meetings from 7.30 
o’clock to to o’clock p.m., or such other hours as may be arranged by the 
Council. 
21. No stranger shall be allowed access to the Library, unless introduced by a 
Member, but a note addressed to the Librarian or Secretary shall be deemed suffi- 
