Royal Microscopical Society - List of Fellows

Date:
18 May1892
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/47/5
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Royal Microscopical Society - List of Fellows. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    think necessary or useful, as also the entire management and superin- tendence of all the other affairs of the said Society, and shall and may, but not inconsistently with or contrary to the provisions of this our Charter, or any existing bye-law, or the laws and statutes of this our realm, do all such acts and deeds as shall appear to them necessary for carrying into effect the objects and views of the said body politie and corporate. PROVIDED ALWaAys, and we do will and declare that the Council shall, from time to time, render to a General Meeting a full account of their proceedings, and that every Fellow of the Society may at all reasonable times, to be fixed by the said Council, see and examine the accounts of the receipts and payments of the said body politic and corporate. And we further will, grant, and declare that the whole property of the said body politic and corporate shall be vested, and we do hereby vest the same, solely and absolutely in the Fellows thereof, and that they shall have full power and authority to sell, alienate, charge, and otherwise dispose of the same as they shall think proper, but that no sale, mortgage, incumbrance, or other disposition of any messuages, lands, tenements, or hereditaments belonging to the said body politic and corporate shall be made, except with the approbation and con- currence of a General Meeting. 7 AND WE LASTLY DECLARE it to be our Royal will and pleasure that no resolution or bye-law shall, on any account or pretence what- soever, be made by the said body politic and corporate, in opposition to the general scope, true intent, and meaning of this our Charter, or the Laws or Statutes of our Realm: And that if any such rule or bye-law shall be made, the same shall be absolutely null and void to all intents, effects, constructions and purposes whatsoever. IN WITNESS WHEREOF we have caused these our Letters to be made Patent. : WITNESS OURSELF, at our Palace at Westminster, this twenty- eighth day of August in the thirtieth year of our reign. By Her Magesty’s ComMMaAnp. (Signed) CARDEW.
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