dent. First Trea surer. First Secretary. To continue Forster, Charles Hatchett, William Lewis, Thomas Rackett, John First Presi- Symmons, and Thomas Young, to be the first Council; the said James Edward Smith, to be the first President; the said Thomas Marsham, to be the first Treasurer; and the said Alexander McLeay, to be the first Secretary, to the said Society: All and each of the aforesaid 24th of May, Officers and Counsellors to continue in such their respective Offices 1803. until the Twenty-fourth Day of May One thousand eight hundred The first Pre- and three; and that the said James Edward Smith shall have Power point 4 Mem- to appoint such Four Persons, from and amongst the Members of the first Council said Council, to be Vice-Presidents of the said Society, as he shall in Office till sident to ap of the to be Vice Presidents. The Fellows, or any 21 or more of them, thereafter, lot, remove 5 the Council for the pre and elect Five in their Room; think fit, until some other Persons shall be chosen in their respective Rooms, in the Manner hereinafter mentioned. And it is Our further Will and Pleasure, that the Fellows of the said on the 24th of Society, or any Twenty-one or more of them, shall and may, on May 1803, and yearly the Twenty-fourth Day of May, One thousand eight hundred and shall, by Bal- three, and also shall and may, on the Twenty-fourth Day of May Members of in every succeeding Year, unless the same shall happen to be on a Sunday, and then on the Day following, assemble together at ceding Year, the then last, or other usual Place of meeting of the said Society, other Fellows and proceed, by Method of Ballot, to put out and amove any Five of the Members who shall have composed the Council of the preceding Year; and shall and may, in like Manner, by Method of Ballot, elect Five other discreet Persons from amongst the Fellows of the said Society, to supply the Places and Offices of such Five as may have been so put out and amoved; it being Our Royal Will and Pleasure, that One-third of the Members of the said Council, and no more, shall be annually changed and reand shall elect moved by the Fellows of the said Society: And, also, that they, from among the said Fellows, or any Twenty-one or more of them, shall and Treasurer, & may, at the Time and Place, and in Manner aforesaid, by Method Secretary for of Ballot, elect, from among the Members of the said Council, the Council a President, when the Council, ed by Death, within Three Months. when formed and elected, in Manner aforesaid, Three fit and the Year ensuing. proper Persons, one of such Persons to be President, another of such Persons to be Treasurer, and the other of such Persons to be Secretary of the said Society, for the Year ensuing; And also, Vacancies in in like Manner, shall and may, in case of the Death of any of the &c. occasionMembers of the Council, or of the President, Treasurer, or to be filled up Secretary, for the Time being, within the Space of Three Months next after such Death or Deaths, in like Manner, elect other discreet Persons, being Fellows of the said Society, to supply the Places and Offices of such Members of the said Council, or of the President, Treasurer, or Secretary, so dying: And also shall Fellows to ap and may appoint such other Persons to be Officers of the Society for the Year ensuing, as they may think proper necessary, for the transacting and managing the Business thereof. And it is Our further Will and Pleasure, that, so soon after the The President Elections aforesaid as conveniently may be, the Person who shall point such said other Officers as they may and think fit. annually to appoint Four Vice-Presi ing and re bers, after the next, vested in or any 11 or at any time hereafter be elected to be President of the said Society, dents. in Manner aforesaid, may and shall nominate and appoint Four Persons, being Members of the said Council, to be Vice-Presidents of the said Society for the Year ensuing. And We do further Power of electdeclare and grant, that, from and after the said Twenty-fourth moving MemDay of May, now next ensuing, the Fellows of the said Society, 24th of May or any Eleven or more of them, shall and may have Power, from the Fellows, Time to Time, at the General Meetings of the said Society, to be more of them. held at the usual Place of Meeting of the said Society, or at such other Place as shall have been in that Behalf appointed, by and with the Consent of the said Society as hereinafter mentioned, to elect such Persons to be Fellows, Honorary Members, Foreign Members, and Associates of the said Society, and all Fellows, Honorary Members, Foreign Members, and Associates, to remove from the said Society as they shall think fit: And that the Council hereby The Council, hereby appointed, and the Council of the said Society for the Time more of them, being, or any Five or more of them, all the Members thereof having or any 5 or all having been summoned, empowered to inake Bye Laws, been first duly summoned to attend the Meetings thereof, shall and may have Power, according to the best of their Judgment and Discretion, to make and establish such Bye-Laws as they shall deem useful and necessary for the Regulation of the said Society, and of the Estate, Goods, and Business thereof; and for fixing and determining the Times and Places of meeting of the said Society, and also the Times, Place, and Manner of electing, appointing, and removing all Fellows, Honorary Members, Foreign Members, and Associates, of the said Society, and all such subordinate Officers, Attendants, and Servants, as shall be deemed necessary or useful for the said Society; And also for filling up, from Time to Time, any Vacancies which may happen by Death, Removal or otherwise, in any of the Offices or Appointments constituted or established for the Execution of the Business and Concerns of the said Society; and for regulating and ascertaining the Qualifications of Persons to become Fellows, Honorary Members, Foreign Members, and Associates, of the said Society respectively, and also the Sum and Sums of Money to be paid by them respectively, whether upon Admission or otherwise, towards carrying on the and to alter Purposes of the said Society; And such Bye-Laws, from Time to Time, to vary, alter, or revoke, and make such new and other Bye-Laws as they shall think most useful and expedient, so that the same be not repugnant to these Presents, or to the Laws of this Our Realm: Provided that no Bye-Law hereafter to be made, Law, or Al- or Alteration or Repeal of any Bye-Law which shall hereafter have be binding on been established by the said Council hereby appointed, or by the until it shall Council for the Time being of the said Society, shall be considered confirmed by to have passed, and be binding on the said Society, until such General Meet- Bye-Law, or such Alteration or Repeal of any Bye-Law, shall have such Bye Laws; but no Bye teration, shall the Society have been Ballot, at a been lows at least been hung up in the common Meeting-Room of the said Society, ing, 11 Feland been read by the President, or by any one of the Vice-Presi- being present. dents for the Time being, at Two successive General Meetings of the said Society, and until the same shall have been confirmed by Ballot, by the Fellows at large of the said Society; such Ballot to take place at the ensuing Meeting next after such Two successive General Meetings of the said Society, Eleven, at least, of the Fellows of the said Society being present; and provided that no such Bye-Law, or Alteration or Repeal of any Bye-Law, shall be deemed or taken to pass in the affirmative, unless it shall appear, upon such Ballot, that Two thirds of the Fellows present at such Meeting shall have voted for the same. WITNESS His Majesty at Westminster, the Twenty-sixth Day of March, in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and two. WILMOT. |