Charter and bye-laws of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society.

  • Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London.
Date:
1857
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Credit: Charter and bye-laws of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    VII. —Each Fellow voting shall deliver his list, folded up, to the President, or Fellow presiding in his stead ; and the name of each Fellow who shall so deliver in his list shall be noted by one of the Secretaries. VIII. —If any Fellows have an equal number of suffrages for an office in the Society, or place in the Council, the person to be elected shall be determined by lot. CHAPTER VII. Of the President and Vice-Presidents. I. —The business of the President shall be to preside at all the Meetings, and to regulate all the proceedings of the Society and Council; to state and put questions, both in the affirmative and negative, according to the sense and intention of the Meeting; to maintain order in the pro- ceedings, and to execute, and see to the execution of, the Provisions of the Charter and Bye-Laws of the Society. Ide shall, after the minutes of each Meeting are read over, with the approbation of the Meeting, sign the same, as a voucher for their accuracy. II. —In the absence of the President, the Vice-Presidents in rotation, or, in their absence, one of the Treasurers, or a Fellow, chosen by the Fellows present, shall take the Chair, and do every such business as the President, when present, is empowered to do by the Charter and Bye-Laws of the Society. CHAPTER VIII. Of the Trustees. I.—There shall be three Trustees of the Society, who shall stand possessed of the funds and securities of the Society for the time being, vested in them upon trust, from time to time, to pay the dividends and interest thereof to the Treasurers of the Society, and to apply and dispose of such funds and securities for the benefit of the Society in such manner as shall be directed by the Council, subject