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Rule 6. The Committee shall appoint Honorary Curators to the 
various departments, and the arrangement of specimens shall be 
left in their hands. 
Rule 7. The Secretaries shall call Special General Meetings of 
the Members upon receiving a requisition signed by ten Mem¬ 
bers. A fortnight’s notice of such Special Meeting and its 
object shall be given to each Member. 
Rule 8 . The Chairman at Meetings shall have a casting vote in 
addition to his vote as a Member. 
Rule 9. One (at least) of the Secretaries shall attend each 
meeting, and shall keep a record of its proceedings. All 
manuscripts and communications shall be under the charge of 
the Secretaries. 
Rule 10. An Annual Subscription of 10s. shall constitute Mem¬ 
bership, such subscription shall be paid in advance, and shall 
become due on the first of June in each year. No Member 
shall be entitled to vote whose subscription is in arrear. 
Rule 11. Donors of Five Guineas or upwards shall be members 
for life. 
Rule 12. Subscribers of a less sum than 10s. per annum shall 
not be entitled to vote at any meeting. 
Rule 13. When any office shall become vacant, or any appoint¬ 
ment shall be requisite, the Committee shall have power to fill 
up the same ; such appointments shall remain in force only to 
the next General Meeting, when they shall be either confirmed 
or annulled. 
Rule 14. The Treasurer shall receive all subscriptions and dona¬ 
tions made to the Museum, and shall pay all accounts passed by 
the Committee ; he shall keep a book of receipts and payments, 
which he shall produce whenever the Committee shall require 
it ; the Accounts shall be audited prior to the General Annual 
Meeting by two Auditors appointed at the previous Annual 
Meeting. 
Rule 15. No change shall be made in the Rules of the Museum 
except at a general or special Meeting of the Members. A 
fortnight’s notice of the proposed change shall be given in, at 
least, one of the Salisbury Papers. 
Rule 16. The admission of all articles shall rest with the Com¬ 
mittee and the Curators of the various departments, and no 
duplicates shall be disposed of except with the concurrence of 
all the Curators of the department to which the objects belong 
and a majority of the Committee. 
Rule 17. Persons shall have liberty to deposit temporarily, books, 
drawings, specimens, &c., subject to the decision as laid down 
in Rule 16, but it shall not be competent for them to withdraw 
