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II.—The Managers may accommodate with apartments such superior and inferior officers and attendants, as may with advantage to the Institution be resident in the house.

III. The Managers shall cause fair and accurate accounts and registers, in writing, to be kept, of all receipts, payments, and transactions, by them, their officers and agents, respectively; and shall take care that they be annually made up to the 31st December in every year, and laid with the vouchers before the Auditors, on or before the 25th of March ensuing.

IV. The Managers shall have power to admit to the Lectures and to the Library, and the other rooms of the Institution, Foreigners of high rank, or of distinguished scientific acquirements, during their temporary residence in the metropolis.

V.-The Managers shall have a power of dividing themselves into Sub-Committees for the more convenient dispatch of business; but no business shall be finally settled by such SubCommittees, until it shall have been reported to and approved by the General Board of Management; and all such Sub-Committees shall cease on the day of the General Annnal Meeting.

SECTION VI.

OF THE MEETINGS OF MANAGERS.

ART. I.—The Meetings of the Managers shall be held in the House of the Institution.

II.-The Monthly Meetings of the Managers shall be held on the Second Thursday in every Month, precisely at Two o'clock.

III.-The President, or two Vice-Presidents, or any three Managers, may, by Requisition in writing to the Secretary, call a Special Meeting of Managers, and the Secretary shall give notice of such Meeting accordingly.

IV. The President shall preside at all Meetings of the Managers, and in case of his absence, one of the Vice-Presidents; and if neither be present, one of the Managers.

V. When, in deciding upon any question by the Managers at one of their Meetings, the Votes for and against the question proposed shall be equal, the President or Chairman at that Meeting shall have a double vote.

SECTION VII.

OF THE MEETINGS OF THE VISITORS.

ART. I.-The Meetings of the Visitors shall be held Quarterly, viz. on the Last Tuesday in March, June, September and December, in every year, at One o'clock precisely, in the House of the Institution.

II.-Special Meetings of the Visitors may be called and held, as often as any Three of the Visitors, or the Committee of Managers, express in writing to the President their request that such Meeting shall be called and held.

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III. Whenever a Special Meeting of the Visitors shall be called, the object of such meeting shall be mentioned in the notice, which is to be sent to each Member of the Committee of Visitors at least eight days previous to the meeting.

IV. The Visitors shall elect from their own members a Secretary, who shall take minutes of their proceedings, and direct summonses to be sent, and do such other business as appertains to the duty of Secretary; whose office shall be honorary, and without salary or emolument.

V.-When, in deciding upon any question at the Meetings of the Visitors, the Votes shall be equal, the President or Chairman, for the time being, shall have a double vote.

VI.-The Visitors may make such regulations respecting the mode of transacting their business, as they shall think necessary or useful, provided such regulations be not repugnant to the Charter, nor to the Bye-laws of the Institution.

SECTION VIII.

OF THE RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES OF PROPRIETORS.

ART. I.-The Proprietors, together with the Subscribers and Honorary Members, have a right of Admission to the Library, from Ten o'clock in the Morning until Ten at Night; and to the Lectures, Reading-Rooms, and all other public parts of the House of the Institution at all hours, from Ten o'clock in the morning until Eleven at night (Sundays, Christmas-day, Good Friday, and Fast and Thanksgiving days by proclamation, excepted); but on Saturday the doors of the Institution shall close at Three o'clock.

II. The Proprietors also shall each have a transferable Ticket, admitting their nominees to the News-Room, Pamphlet-Room, Library, and the Lectures in the Theatre; and no person, except Proprietors or Life-Subscribers, shall be admitted without producing such Ticket, and entering his name in a book kept for such purpose, together with the name of the Proprietor and the number of his ticket: and in case of the loss of such Ticket, or the loss of the Thirty-guinea-Ticket hereafter referred to, application may be made to the Committee of Management for renewal; which they are hereby empowered to grant, should they consider it expedient, on the payment of a fine of One Guinea for every such issue.

III.-Every Subscriber of Thirty Guineas shall be entitled to an additional perpetual Transferable Ticket to the Library, or to be at liberty at any time to exchange this privilege for the nomination of a Life-Subscriber.

IV. Every Subscriber of One Hundred Guineas shall be entitled to Three additional perpetual Transferable Tickets to the Library, or be at liberty at any time to exchange this privilege for the nomination of Three Life-Subscribers, or of One Proprietor.

V.-Any Subscribers (not exceeding Four in number) whose joint Subscriptions amount to One Hundred Guineas or upwards,

shall, at their option, in lieu of all other additional privileges, have that of nominating a Proprietor.

VI.-If any Subscriber of Thirty Guineas or upwards do not himself exercise the privileges attached to his Subscription, the right of exercising such privilege shall be transferable with his share in the Institution.

The Solicitor shall make a written Report to the Managers on the legal claim of any person as the representative of any deceased Proprietor; which Report shall be entered in a register book to be kept for that purpose, and the document referred to therein filed and preserved (the Solicitor's fee for his Report shall be One Guinea and no more, to be paid by the Proprietor on his admission).

SECTION IX.

OF HONORARY MEMBERS.

ART. I.-Persons of distinguished rank or qualifications whether natives or foreigners, may be elected Honorary Members of the Institution.

II.-Every person proposed for election as an Honorary Member, must be recommended by three at least of the Managers, and be proposed and balloted for, with the interval of one month at least, between such proposal and ballot, when two negatives shall exclude.

· SECTION X.

OF LIFE AND ANNUAL SUBSCRIBERS.

ART. I.-A candidate for election as a Life-Subscriber, or as an Annual Subscriber, must be proposed at a Meeting of the Managers, and the name of the Candidate when entered in the List of Candidates, and at the next Meeting of the Managers the question of admission shall be moved, and a decision thereon taken.

II.-Subscribers for Life, and Annual Subscribers, shall have free admission into all the public parts of the Institution at all hours, from Ten o'clock in the morning until Eleven o'clock at night, Sundays, etc. excepted. See SECTION VIII. ART. I.

III.-Subscribers to particular Courses of Lectures, or to the Library, shall be admitted thereto upon the terms from time to fixed by the Managers.

SECTION XI.

OF THE TREASURER.

ART. I.-The Treasurer shall be elected Annually, by and from among the Proprietors, and his appointment shall be Honorary, and without salary.

II.—All monies belonging to the Institution shall remain in the hands of the Bankers appointed by the Managers, and all Receipts and Payments shall be entered in the Bankers' book, under the direction of the Treasurer, which book shall be laid on the table of the Managers, at all their Meetings.

III.-He shall order payment to be made of such Drafts as shall be made on him by the Committee of Managers, as also of such Bills and other Disbursements, as they shall specially direct to be paid by him.

IV. He shall enter into a bond with two Sureties, to be approved of by the Managers, in the sum of Five Thousand Pounds, on condition that he duly account for, pay, and apply, all such sums of money, or other property and effects belonging to the Institution, as shall come into his possession as Treasurer.

V.—He shall make up his accounts to the 31st December in every year, and lay them before the Managers, in order to their being prepared for the annual inspection of the Auditors.

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