Record

RefNoCMO/2/228
AltRefNoCMO/2/200
LevelFile
TitleMinutes of a meeting of the Council of the Royal Society
Date20 March 1712
DescriptionPresent at the meeting: The President; Mr Waller; Dr Sloane; Mr Hill; Ssir Thomas Crisp; Mr Petiver; Mr Nelson; Mr Morland; Mr Burnet; Mr Derham; Dr Mead; Mr Isted

' Mr Brook Taylor, Dr John Freind, Dr James Keill, Mr John Fortescue, Dr Thomas Pellet, Mr Arch-Deacon Sprat, Mr Peter Leneve, Mr Kemp, the Lord Chief Justice Parker, and the Lord Harley, were proposed, ballotted for and approved to be Candidates of the Society.

The President taking Notice that in the last Audit of Accounts One of the Auditors had doubted signing the Accounts unless he had seen the Original Orders of Councill, whether there was sufficient Numbers present, and the Council regularly summoned : It was Ordered that hereafter the Accounts shall be passed as usual, and that the Presidents signing an Order in Council shall be a sufficient Order to the Treasurer, as it hath been heretofore. It was Ballotted for and carried in the Affirmative, Nemine contradicents.

Mr Hunt's Allowance of Twenty Pounds due from the 14th of July 1711 to the 14th of January 1711/12 was ordered to be paid. '
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FormatManuscript
AccessStatusOpen
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