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LAWS. 
SECEETAEIES. 
20. 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. 
CUEATOES. 
21. 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. 
22. Should a vacancy occur in any of the offices above men- 
tioned, it shall be filled without delay by the Council at a meeting 
convened for the purpose. 
COUNCIL. 
23. The Officers shall constitute a Council, of which five members 
shall form a quorum, and the President or one of the Vice- 
Presidents 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. 
24. 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. 
25. 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 instance do not exceed two 
guineas; such books or apparatus being then considered the property 
of the Society. 
