IV. The management of the Society’s affairs shall be vested in a Council consisting of twenty-one members, viz., a President, two Vice-Presidents, a Secretary, and seventeen ordinary members, to be elected annually; but vacancies occurring between the general meetings shall be filled up by the Council.
V. A General Meeting of the Subscribers shall be held annually. The Secretary’s Report on the condition and proceedings of the Society shall be then read, and the Meeting shall proceed to elect the Council for the ensuing year.
VI. At each Annual Election, fix of the old Council shall retire, of whom three shall be eligible for re-election.
VII. The Council shall meet every month, excepting August, September, October, and November, for the dispatch of business, three forming a quorum, including the Secretary, and the Chairman having a casting vote.
VIII. Gentlemen preparing and editing works for the Society, shall receive twenty-five copies of such works respectively, and an additional twenty-five copies if the work is also translated.
RULES FOR THE DELIVERY OF THE SOCIETY’S VOLUMES.
I. The Society’s productions will be delivered without any charge, within three miles of the General Post Office.
II. They will be forwarded to any place beyond that limit, the Society paying the cost of booking, but not of carriage; nor will it be answerable in this case for any loss or damage.
III. They will be delivered by the Society’s agent, Mr. Thos. Richards, 37, Great Queen Street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, to persons having written authority of subscribers to receive them.
IV. They will be sent to the Society’s correspondents or agents in the principal towns throughout the kingdom; and care shall be taken that the charge for carriage be as moderate as possible.