V. A General Meeting of the Subscribers shall be held annually, on the first Thursday in March, when two gentlemen shall be appointed to audit the Society’s accounts. The Secretary’s Report on the condition and proceedings of the Society shall be then read, and, along with the Auditor’s Report, be submitted for approval; and finally, the Meeting shall proceed to elect the Council for the ensuing year.
VI. At each Annual Election six of the old Council shall retire; and a list of the proposed new Council shall be printed for the subscribers previous to the general meeting.
VII. The Council shall meet ordinarily on the 3rd Tuesday in every month, excepting August, September and October, for the despatch of business, three forming a quorum, and the Chairman having a casting vote.
VIII. Gentlemen preparing and editing works for the Society shall receive twenty-five copies of such works respectively.
IX. The number of copies printed of the Society’s productions shall not exceed the estimated number of Subscribers; so that after the second year, when the Society may be supposed to have reached its full growth, there shall be no extra copies.
X. The Society shall appoint Local Secretaries throughout the kingdom, empowered to enrol members, transmit subscriptions, and otherwise forward the Society’s interests; and it shall make such arrangements with its correspondents in the chief provincial towns as will insure to Subscribers residing in the country the regular delivery of their volumes at moderate charges.
Rules for the Delivery of the Society’s Volumes.
I. The Society’s productions will be delivered without any charge, within three miles of the General Post Office.
II. They will be forwarded to any place beyond that limit, the Society paying the cost of booking, but not of carriage; nor will it be answerable in this case for any loss or damage.
III. They will be delivered by the Society’s agent, T. Rodd, Great Newport-street, to persons having the written authority of subscribers to receive them.
IV. They will be sent to the Society’s correspondents or agents in the principal towns throughout the kingdom; and care shall be taken that the charge for carriage be as moderate as possible.