‘ 
members of the General Committee, and 
to receive a report of the accounts and 
tranfactions of the preceding year, and to 
-confider the fame. 
4. Special meetings of the Patrons fhall 
be ‘held (with eight days previous notice 
at leaft) whenever the Chief Patron or 
General Committee fhall think proper ; 
or whenever feven of the Patrons fhall re- 
quire it, by notice addreffed to the Chief 
Patron, or in his abfence to the Chair- 
man or Deputy-chairman. 
5. In all General Meetings of the Pa- 
trons, the Chief Patron fhall take the 
Chair, or in his abfence, the Chairman, 
or the Deputy-chairman ; and in their ab- 
fence, the Treafurer, or one of the Mem- 
bers of the Committee. 
6. No General Meeting fhall be compe- 
tent to bufinefs, unlefs feven members at 
jeaft be prefent. 
7. The Meetings of the General Com- 
mittee fhall be on the laft Wednefday of 
every month, at two o’clock precifely, and 
fhall be open to any of the Patrons who 
fall think proper to attend. 
8. In the Meetings of Committees, the 
bufinefS fhall be conduéted by the Chair- 
man; or, in hisabfence, by the Deputy- 
chairman; or, in his abfence, by the 
Treafirer, or one of the Committee. 
9. No Meeting of the General Com- 
mittee fhall be competent to bufinefs, un- 
lefs three members at leaft be prefent. 
ro. Special Meetings of the General 
Committee fhall be held with three days 
previous notice at leaft, whenever the 
Chairman, or, in nis abfence, the Deputy- 
chairman, fhall think proper. 
rr. The General Committee fhall ap- 
point Sub-committees for formings lifts of 
books of the feveral claffes, and for any 
other part of their bufinefs; which Sub- 
committees fhall make their reports to the — 
“monthly meetings. 
1z. Subfcriptions to the Library and 
Colle&ion fhall be received on account of 
the Library and Colleétion at the follow- 
ing bankers; where the fubfcription of 
each individual thall be {pecified.—Mefirs. 
Hoares, Fleet-f{treet.—Coutts and Co. 
-Strand.—Ranfom, Morland, and Co, Pall 
Mall,—Down, Thornton, and Co. Bar- 
tholomew-lane. 
13. No monies fhall be drawn from the 
bankers, but by order of the General 
Committee, figned by the Chairman and 
Secretary of the Meeting, and counter- 
figned by the Treafurer. 
14. A ftate of the balances at the 
bankers fhall be laid on the table at the 
General Meetings of the Patrons, and at 
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the Monthly Meetings of the Generat 
Committee ; and whenever there is a furs 
plus, for which no immediate demand oc- 
curs, it fhall be placed in floating or pers 
manent public fecurities, by order of the 
General Committee. 
15. Ihe minutes of the General Meet- 
ings and of the Meetings of the General 
Committee, and the accounts of all ree 
ceipts and payments in refpect of the Li- 
brary and Colleétion, fliall be laid on the 
table at the General Meetings of the Pa- 
trons, and at the Monthly Meetings of 
the Committee, and fhall be open to: the 
infpection of all the Patrons. 
16. When upon any queftion the nums 
bers are equal, the Chairman fhall have 
a double or cafting voice. 
17. In cafe, at any time fixed fora Gea . 
neral Meeting, there fhall not be feven 
Members prefent, or, at any fixed time, for 
a Meeting of the General Committee, there 
fhall not be three Members prefent, tha 
Member or Members prefent may adjourn 
the meeting (if he or they fhall think fit} 
for any time, fo as eight days notice at 
Jeaft be given to the other Patrons in cafe 
of an adjourned General Meeting, and fo 
as three days notice at leaft be given to 
the other Members of the General Com- 
mittee, in cafe of an adjourned Meeting 
of the Committee. heey 3 
Nearly FIVE THOUSAND POUNDS 
have already been fubfcribed ; and there it 
caufe to congratulate the Public on the pro-= 
Speci of the cftablifhuient of a Public Li- 
brary worthy of the opulence and the 
greatness of the Britifb Metropolis. 
For the Monthly Magazines 
CANTABRIGIANA. 
LKV.-—=-THE CODEX BEZE, or CAM4 
BRIDGE MANUSCRIPT. 
CONCISE account was given, in a 
\\ former Number, of the oldeft print- 
ed books at Cambridge: it will be in or 
‘der to prefent the reader now with a few 
remarks on the moft ancient Greek MS. 
This celebrated codex: is a thick quarte 
on yellum, containing, as already ob- 
ferved, the four Gofpels and Aéts of the 
Apoftles. The Gofpels are in the fol- 
lowing order:—Matthew, John, Luke, 
Mark, ‘The letters in fome places, par- 
ticularly in the beginning of the firft leaf, 
are almoft confumed with age, and fearce- 
ly tegible. - The corrections sre nume- 
rous. The firlt chapter of Maithew is 
defective in the Greek to v. 20, and in 
the Latin to v. 12, «he codex being a 
Greek text with a Latin tranflaticn. ‘Ses 
gaa veral . 
