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At a Meeting of the Council held Feb. 25th, 1851 , the following 
Regulations respecting the reading and publication of 
Papers and the duties of Curators were adopted. 
PUBLICATION OF PAPERS. 
After the reading of any Paper at the Monthly Meetings the 
Author shall be requested to furnish an Abstract or Copy of the same 
to the Secretaries. 
The Abstract or Copy so furnished shall be immediately copied into 
a folio Book, which book shall be placed in the Library, and be open 
to the Members, but shall not be taken out of the room, except for 
the use of the Council at their Meetings, at each of which it shall be 
laid before them. 
The printing of Papers or Abstracts shall be limited to such Papers 
as relate to the Natural-History and Antiquities of Yorkshire, or the 
contents of the Yorkshire Museum. 
The Council shall provide the means of determining what Papers 
come within this rule, and to what extent they shall be printed, and 
whether they shall be accompanied or not by plates. 
The transactions shall not be offered for sale, and no more than 
500 copies shall be printed such copies being for the use of Members 
and for exchange with other Societies. 
Authors shall be allowed 25 copies of their communications free 
of charge. 
The publication shall be annual. 
DUTIES OF CURATORS. 
The Council being of opinion that the Society derived great benefit 
from the services of Curators of departments of the Museum through 
a long period of years, and that the interests of the Institution 
require that these officers should be maintained in activity and honour, 
not only as positively useful to the due care of the Collections, but as 
collaterally important in preserving and extending the favour of the 
Public—have adopted the following regulations :— 
The Curators of departments shall be severally independent, 
responsible only to, and allowed free communication with the Council, 
by written reports or personal communication. 
