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 that it exceed not two hundred Pounds a Year. ''They shall be well skilled in philosophical and mathematical Learning, well vers'd in Observations, Inquiries, and Experiments of Nature and Art. They shall take care of the managing of all Experiments and Observations appointed by the Society or Council, and report the same, and perform such other Tasks, as the Society or Council shall appoint; such as the examining of Sciences, Arts, and Inventions now in use, and the bringing in Histories of natural and artificial things'', &c. ''They shall be propounded at least a Month before they are chosen. They shall be examined by the Council before the Election: To their Election every Member of the Society shall be summoned: They shall at first be only elected for a Year of Probation, except they be of known Merits; at the end of the Year, they shall be either elected for Perpetuity, or for a longer Time of Probation, or wholly rejected. The Causes of ejecting a Curator shall be the same with ejecting a Fellow, or for fraudulent Dealing and Negligence in the Affairs of the Society, provided that he shall first receive three respective Admonitions. If any Curator shall be disabled by Age, Infirmity, or any Casualty, in the Service of the Society, some Provision shall be made for him during Life, if his Condition requires, according as the Council shall think fit''.

The Clerk shall constantly attend at all Meetings; he shall follow the Directions of the Secretaries, in registering and entring all Matters that shall be appointed: he shall not communicate any thing contained in their Books, to any that is not a Fellow. He shall have a certain Rate for what he copies, and a yearly Stipend for his Attendance.

The Printer shall take care for the printing of such Rh