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 ''The Election of the Council and Officers shall be made once a Year: Eleven of the present Council shall be continued by Lot, for the next Year, and ten new ones chosen in like Manner. Out of this new Council shall be elected a President, Treasurer, and two Secretaries in the same way.''

''The President shall preside in all Meetings, regulate all Debates of the Society and Council; State, and put Questions; call for Reports and Accounts from Committees, Curators, and others; summon all extraordinary Meetings upon urgent Occasions, and see to the Execution of the Statutes. The Vice-President shall have the same Power in the Absence of the President''.

''The Treasurer, or his Deputy, shall receive and keep Accounts of all Money due to the Society, and disburse all Money payable by the Society. He shall pay small Sums by Order of the President under his Hand, but those that exceed five Pounds by Order of the Council. All Bills of Charges for Experiments shall first be signed by the Curators. The Accounts of the Treasurer shall be audited four times a Year, by a Committee of the Council, and once a Year by a Committee of the Society.''

The Secretaries are to take Notes of the Orders, and material Passages of the Meetings; to take care of the Books, Papers, and Writings of the Society; to order and direct the Clerks in making Entries of all Matters in the Register and Journal Books of the Society or Council; to draw up such Letters as shall be written in their Name, which shall be approved at one of their Meetings; to give notice of the Candidates propounded in order to Election.

The Curators by Office shall have a sufficient Allowance for their Encouragement, which shall increase proportionably with the Revenue of the Society, 6