SECT. I. The Secretary shall have Inspection over the Clerk; and shall give the necessary Orders and Directions concerning the entering and writing of all Minutes or Matters in the Minute-Books of the Society or Council, or any other Books of the Society; also concerning any Orders or other Writings for the Use and Service of the Society.

II. The Secretary shall attend at all Meetings of the Society, Council, and Committees; where, when the President shall have taken the Chair, he shall read the Minutes, Orders, and Entries, of the preceding Meeting; and shall afterwards take Minutes of the Business and Orders of the present Meeting, to be entered by the Clerk in the respective Books to which they may relate. He shall also read the Letters and Papers presented to the Society in the Order of Time in which they shall have been received, if the President should so direct.

III. The Secretary shall draw up all Letters to be written to any Persons in the Name of the Society or Council (to be read and approved of in some Meeting of either respectively), except, for some particular Cause or Consideration, some other Person be appointed by the Society or Council to draw up any such Letter. He shall likewise have the Charge, under the Direction of the Council, of printing the Transactions of the Society, and of correcting the Press.

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CHAPTER XII.

Of the Clerk, Librarian, and Housekeeper.

SECT. I. The Person who shall be chosen to any one or to all of these Offices, to which Salaries or Emoluments are to be annexed, shall either not be a Fellow of the Society; or, if a Fellow, shall cease to be so, upon his Election to, and Acceptance of, any such Office; as no Fellow of the Society is, or shall be, capable of holding any Place, Office, or Appointment under the Society, to which any Salary, Profit, or Emolument, is, or shall be annexed.

II. He shall be competently skilled in Languages and Natural Knowledge, and able to write a fair and legible Hand.

III. The Election of a Person or Persons, to fill one or all of the Situations above mentioned, shall be by the Fellows, in the following Manner: viz. The Names of the several Candidates, if more than one, shall be printed, and delivered to every Fellow attending the Election; each of whom shall take off the Name of such Candidate as he may desire to vote for, and (after having had his own Name marked in a List of the Fellows of the Society by the Secretary, assisted by two Scrutators, to be appointed in the same manner as at the Anniversary Elections) shall deliver the Name of the Candidate so taken off, and folded up, into the Hands of the President, who, in the Presence of the Society, shall put the several Names into a Vessel appropriated for that Purpose; and the Candidate who shall be found to have the Majority of Votes, shall be deemed duly elected.

IV. The Person, or Persons, who may be appointed to any, or all of the said Offices, shall be paid such Salary and Allowances

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as the Council may judge reasonable; and shall not, under Pain of Dismissal, receive any Perquisite, or Profit whatever, arising from his, or their Connection with the Society, excepting that which shall be expressly allowed by the Council.

V. The Clerk, Librarian, and Housekeeper, shall be subject to such Rules and Orders as shall, from Time to Time, be given to him or them by the President and Council, besides those annexed to the several Offices, as stated in the following Sections; and shall constantly be in Attendance, during all Meetings of the Society, Council, and Committees.

VI. The Clerk, under the Direction of the Secretary, shall enter all the Minutes into the several fair Minute-Books, and shall have the Care of the Writing of all Summonses of the Society, Council, and Committees.

VII. The Clerk shall also, under the Direction of the Secre tary, have the Charge and Custody of the Charter and Bye-LawBook, Minute-Books of the Society and Council, Register-Books and Letter-Books; as also of all Papers and Writings belonging to the Society: all which shall be kept in the House of the Society, that they may be in readiness to be produced at any Meetings of the Society or Council, as the Case shall require, or as shall be ordered by the Society, Council, or President.

VIII. The Clerk shall not suffer any Person, not being a Fellow of the Society, to read any Minute-Book, Record, or Writing, or any Part thereof, belonging to the Society; nor give any Copy thereof, nor in any way communicate any thing contained therein, to any such Person.

IX. He shall, as Deputy to the Treasurer, receive the Payments of the Fellows, pay such Bills as he shall be directed to discharge, pay to the Treasurer the Balance in his Hands whenever he shall be called upon, and keep a fair Account of the Society's Income and Expense.

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X. He shall also receive from the Printer all the Copies of the Transactions of the Society; deliver out one Copy to each Fellow, not being in Arrear, who shall ask, or send for it to the House of the Society; furnish the Booksellers with the Copies ordered to be sold; and keep a regular Account of the Transactions so received and delivered.

XI. The Librarian shall attend on such Days, and at such Hours, in every Week, as the Council shall direct, for the Accommodation of such Fellows, or other Members of the Society, as shall desire to consult any of the Books in the Society's Library, and of any other Persons who shall bring a written Authority from any Member of the Council, or who shall be introduced by a Fellow in Person.

XII. The Librarian shall enter into a Catalogue all Books, presented to, or bought by the Society, immediately after their coming into the Possession of the Society, and so place them as that they may be readily found.

XIII. The Librarian shall also have the Charge of the Society's Museum of Natural History; to view which he is to admit the Members of the Society, and such other Persons as shall be introduced by Fellows, at such Times as the Council shall direct. He shall not, without Leave of the Council, permit any Article whatever to be taken out of the Society's Collection, and he shall enter into a Catalogue all Articles presented to, or bought by the Society.

XIV. The Housekeeper shall be always ready to receive Messages, Parcels, Letters, &c. directed to the Society, Council, and Officers; and to cause all Orders, Summonses, and Letters, of the President, Council, and Committees, to be sent or delivered, as directed, in proper Time.

XV. He shall take care that the Society's House, and particularly

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cularly the Meeting-Room, and other public Apartments, be kept clean; and that all Conveniencies, with Fires and Candles in the proper Rooms, be prepared and lighted at the Times necessary; and that Paper, Pens and Ink be in constant readiness for Use in every Department: and shall inform the Council, from Time to Time, of whatsoever Repairs he may conceive to be wanting.

XVI. He shall have the Care of the Keys of all the Apartments belonging to the Society, as well for their cleaning and repairing, as for securing their Contents, as much as possible, in the case of Fire or other Accident.

XVII. He shall also carry about the Balloting-Box, at all Meetings, when the President or Chairman shall so direct.

CHAPTER XIII.

Of the General or Ordinary Meetings of the Society.

SECT. I. The General or Ordinary Meetings of the Society shall be held on the Third Tuesday in January, the First and Third Tuesdays in February, March and April, the First Tuesday in May, and on the First and Third Tuesdays in June, November and December, to begin at Eight o'Clock in the Evening, and to continue about an Hour, at the Discretion of the President; but there shall be no Meetings of the Society in the Months of July, August, September and October, nor on the First Tuesday in the Month of January.

II. The Honorary Members, Foreign Members and Associates, shall have free Communication with the Society at their General Meetings.

III. Each Fellow, Honorary Member, Foreign Member and Associate,