| Description | Present at the Council: Lord Bishop of Salisbury in the Chair; Earl Marshall; Mr Charles Howard; Mr Daniel Colwall; Dr Jonathan Goddard; Mr Abraham Hill; Mr Hoskins; Mr Henry Oldenburg
The Lord Marshall reported that Lord Yarmouth had declared he would clear his arrears to the Society, and Mr Povey was willing to pay what should be due from him above the sum of twenty pounds he had expended for the Society in the business of the Savoy. The Secreatary was ordered tosearch in the Council Book, what was formerly ordered by the Council in this matter.
The Lord Marshall offered to write to Mr Ricants in Smyrna about his arrears. On this occasion of his absence in remote parts, the Lord Marshall proposed that such members of the Royal Society as are or shall go abroad and continue absent from England more than three months shall not be obliged to pay their weekly contributions after the three months are expired, and every such Fellow should be left to decide whether to pay or not pay until he returns again to England.
Proposition agreed .
Ordered that the Fellows who are in arrears shall be allowed to give a Bond to the Society to pay within or at the end of six months.Mr Hoskins to draw up a form for such a Bond.
Memorandum, that when the number of the Fellows are agreed upon, the form of a legal tye be presented to every one of them to secure the weekly contribution.
It was mentioned that as long as they do not know how many will remain of those Fellows that are now of the Society, they cannot fix the numbers of the ordinary Fellows. |