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LAWS. 
TREASURERS. 
20. The Treasurers shall, on the last evening of every session, 
produce an account of the expenses of the past year, circumstantially 
detailed, and audited by two Members named by the President. 
21. The Treasurers shall pay no bill until it shall have been 
passed by the Council. 
SECRETARIES. 
22. The Secretaries shall keep the minutes of the proceedings, 
and record the transactions of the Society, and on the last evening 
of every session they shall produce a list of the Members, together 
with a written report of any new laws that may have been enacted, 
and of any important occurrences of the past year. It shall also 
be their duty to prepare the list of lectures, which shall afterwards 
be arranged and printed under the direction of the Council. 
CURATORS. 
23. The Curators shall have the care of the property of the 
Society, and the control of the various departments, subject to the 
direction of the Council; and a week before the last evening of 
every session, they shall deliver to the Secretaries written reports 
of their proceedings during the past year, stating what alterations 
have been made in the property respectively under their charge. 
COUNCIL. 
24 Eive members of the Council shall form a quorum, and the 
President or one of the Vice-Presidents, or in their absence one of 
the other officers, shall be Chairman. They shall receive all literary 
and scientific communications, decide on the propriety of inserting 
them in the records, superintend their publication, and manage the 
general affairs of the Society. 
25. All recommendations of books, apparatus, &c, shall be 
made to the Council, and the Society shall not be held responsible 
for any expenditure without its sanction. 
26. The Council may supply the immediate wants of Lecturers 
in books or apparatus, or defray the expenses otherwise attendant 
on the lectures, if the expense in each case do not exceed two 
guineas ; such books or apparatus being then considered the property 
of the Society. 
