| Description | Present at the Council; Lord Brouncker, Mr Aereskine, Mr Balle, Mr Evelyn, Mr Palmer, Dr Wilkins, Dr Ent, Dr Goddard, Dr Clark, Mr Hill, Mr Oldenburg
Voted that there shall be two distinct tables, one for the Laws contained in the Charter, and another for the Bye-Laws.
Dr Goddard brought in a draft of the Statute ordered at an earlier meeting, which was read and passed the first time as follows;
'All Moneys, or summe of Money, whereof there shall not be present occasion for expending or disposing to the use of the Society, shall be Layd up in an Iron chest, having three different locks and keyes, whereof one shall be in th custody of the President; another, of the Treasurer; and a third, of one of the Secretaries : And the Treasurer shall not have in his Custody above twenty pounds, at once, and accordingly he shall pay in moneys into the Chest aforesaid, and take out of the same, by Order of the Council as they shall judge expedient.'
All the Statutes of the 5th Chapter concerning experiments and the reports thereof; of the 7th concerning the Election of the Council and Officers; of the 9th concerning the Treasurer and his accounts; of the 11th concerning Curators by office; of the 12th concerning the Clerk; of the 13th concerning the Operators; of the 14th concerning the Common-seal and Deeds; of the 15th concerning the Books of the Society; of the 16th concerning Benefactors; of the 17th concerning the Death of any Fellow; of the 18th concerning the Causes and forms of Ejection: all these passed first time.
Resolved that an order be issued, for the collecting of the weekly payments, signed by the President, stating that all persons that have been elected and admitted into the Royal Society of London etc to pay their whole arrears by the 23 day of September
The president was asked to bring in the results of the Treausrer's Accounts at th next meeting of the Council
The President was asked to make sure that notice may be given to Mr Symmons, the Graver of the Seal of the Society, to attend the Council, at the next sitting. |