5. He shall give notice in the newspapers of the meetings of the society, and of the officers and council, and shall make all such publications on behalf of the society as are not otherwise devolved by law or special order.

6. He shall at the beginning of each year cause tables to be prepared for the use of the members, on which shall be noted the days for the meetings of the society and the council, the stated business to be transacted thereat, and the names of the officiating secretaries and curator.

7. He shall receive an annual salary of two hundred dollars from the treasury of the society.

CHAPTER IX.

OF THE MEETINGS OF THE SOCIETY.

SECTION 1. The ordinary meetings of the society shall be on the first and third Fridays of every month from October to May, both inclusive, and on the third Friday of each of the other four months, at seven o'clock in the evening. Special meetings may be called at any time by order of the president; or in his absence, by order of a vice-president.

2. The chair shall be taken by the presiding officer within one hour at most after the time appointed for the meeting.

3. A quorum for the election of members, the award of premiums, or the enactment of laws, shall include at least twenty qualified voters: in all cases not otherwise provided for, the members present shall be a quo

rum.

4. Those members shall be considered qualified vo

ters at the meetings, who have subscribed the laws and paid the admission fee, and who are not in arrears to the society.

5. No meeting shall be continued after eleven o'clock, nor any new matter be introduced after ten, unless in the transaction of business enjoined by the laws.

6. The Hall of the society shall be open, on every Friday evening, when the society is not in session, to the members and such friends as they may introduce, for the purposes of reading and social intercourse.

CHAPTER X.

OF THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE SOCIETY.

SECTION 1. Every communication to the society which may be considered as intended for a place in the transactions shall immediately be referred to a committee to consider and report thereon.

2. If the committee shall report in favour of publishing the communication, they shall make such corrections therein as they may judge necessary to fit it for the press; or if they shall judge the publication of an abstract or extracts from the paper to be most elegible, they shall accompany their report with such abstract or extracts. But if the author do not approve of the corrections, abstract, or extracts, reported by the committee, he shall be at liberty to withdraw his paper.

3. Communications which may not be intended by their authors for publication in the transactions, will be received by the society, the title or subject of them recorded, and if they be in writing, they shall be filed by the secretaries.

4. The transactions shall be published in numbers, at short intervals, under the direction of the committee of publication, and in such a form as the society shall from time to time direct.

5. The order in which papers are read before the society, shall determine their places in the transactions; priority of date giving priority of location.

6. The expenses of publishing the transactions shall be defrayed by subscriptions for the published copies, aided by such funds as the society shall from time to time appropriate for that purpose.

7. Immediately after the meetings on the first Friday of January, a list of communications and donations made to the society, within the year, with the names of the authors or donors, and a catalogue of the officers and new members, shall be published in some of the newspapers or periodical journals of Philadelphia, and similar lists shall also be inserted in the appendix to the transactions.

CHAPTER XI.

OF THE STANDING AND OF SPECIAL COMMITTEES.

SECTION 1. There shall be chosen, at the stated meeting on the third Friday of January in each year, three members of the society to be a committee of finance, three to be a committee of publication, three to be a committee on the Hall, and three to be a committee on the library.

2. The committee of finance shall have the general superintendence of the financial concerns of the society; they shall consult with the treasurer, and authorise

and direct investments of its surplus funds; they shall always have access to his books, accounts, and vouchers; and they shall annually on the third Friday of December make a full report on the state of the treasury, particularly distinguishing the several funds, and the income and disbursements of each, and recommending the amounts which should be appropriated for different objects of expenditure during the ensuing year. They shall also have power to remit the fees and contributions of members, where they shall judge that circumstances make it proper.

3. The committee of publication shall superintend the printing and distribution of the society's transactions. They shall liquidate the expenses attending the publication, fix the prices of the different numbers, receive subscriptions, and collect the payments for copies of them; they shall keep regular and distinct accounts of their receipts and expenditures, and shall annually make a full report of their doings to the society, at its meeting on the first Friday of December. They shall have power to call on the librarian for his assistance in the performance of their duties.

4. The committee on the Hall shall have charge of the real estate of the society, and shall direct all necessary repairs; they shall effect insurance upon the property of the society in such amounts as may from time to time be directed.

5. The committee on the library shall confer with and assist the librarian in the disbursement of the annual appropriations for the library, and in the disposition and arrangement of the books, charts, and documents belonging to the society.

6. No committee appointed on any subject of deliberation shall consist of less than three members: but any

other matter may be committed to a single member. A majority of any committee shall be a quorum.

7. All committees shall be chosen, unless otherwise directed by the society, on nominations previously made and seconded, the question being then put on each member separately; but no member of the society shall either nominate or second the nomination of more than one member of any committee.

8. The member first elected of any committee shall be the chairman, and considered responsible for the discharge of the duties enjoined on the committee.

9. Committees shall report at the meeting ensuing their appointment, unless otherwise ordered by the society and on the failure of the committee making a final report at the proper time, unless a satisfactory reason for their delay be given, they shall be discharged and the matter dropped or referred to another committee, as the society shall then determine.

10. All reports shall be in writing and signed by the members agreeing thereto.

11. The names of the committees, the time of their appointment, the matter or business committed to them, the time at which they are to report, and the time at which their final report is presented, shall be entered by the secretaries in a book to be provided for that purpose.

CHAPTER XII.

OF THE MAGELLANIC FUND.

SECTION 1. John Hyacinth de Magellan, in London, having in the year 1786 offered to the society as a