Statutes of the Medical Society of London, instituted 1773.

  • Medical Society of London.
Date:
1850
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Credit: Statutes of the Medical Society of London, instituted 1773. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4. At the third general meeting such alterations or additions to the laws of the Society shall be made as may be thought necessary, agreeably to Chap. XVII. 5. Besides the three meetings above mentioned, a general meeting may be called by the President and Council, at any time when the interests of the Society may seem to require it, notice thereof being given to each Fellow, at least six days previously to such meeting. CHAP. XVII. OF THE MAKING AND REPEALING LAWS OR STATUTES. 1. New Laws or Regulations may be made, and old ones repealed ar altered, at the third General Meeting of the Society, or such Special General Meeting as shall at any time be summoned for that purpose. 2. If two thirds of the Fellows present ballot in favour of the pro- posed regulation, it shall be declared a Law of the Society. 3. The Council shall nevertheless have the power to make alter- ations in the Laws of the Society, or new Laws, at other times n the following manner. The alteration having been agreed upon ay the Council, the same shall be read to the Society from the Chair, before nine o’clock, at two successive Ordinary Meetings ; and the aroposed alteration having been suspended during the interval in the Library, shall become a Law of the Society when it has been thus ;wice publicly read, without an appeal being lodged against it. If, lowever, an appeal, signed by at least six Fellows, be delivered to ;be President, at either of the two meetings above-named, he shall akethe sense of the Society, as to the convention of a Special Meet- ng, according to the usual form; at which meeting, should the najority of the Fellows present be averse to the change, the pro- >osed Law shall be declared by the President to be null and void. CHAP. XVIII. OF THE APPEALS AND SPECIAL MEETINGS. 1. The Fellows have the right of appeal from any act of the Council, to the Society at large. 2. An appeal to the Society must be signed by six or more ’ellows, and delivered at any ordinary meeting to the President efore nine o’clock, who shall read it from the Chair; and should he appeal not be withdrawn before nine o’clock at that or the nsuing Ordinary Meeting, the President shall then take the sense f the Society, whether or not a Special Meeting shall be con- ened for its consideration. The time at which the me’eting shall be eld, to be determined by the votes of the Fellows present.