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thereafter, the Council and Fellows are to
assemble to nominate and elect a Presi-
dent and Council for the ensuing year;
and it is particularly directed that eleven
of the former Council shall be continued,
and ten other persons chosen out of the
members of the Society: ten and no more
of the Council being to be changed an-
nually. The President is empowered to
nominate four persons of the Council to
be his Deputies, and supply his place in
case of sickness or absence, and the Presi-
dent, Council, Fellows, or any twenty-
one or more, are empowered to make
statutes, rules, orders and by-laws, for
the government and direction of the
said Society, their estates, goods, &c.
and for the admission and amoval of all
and every the members and officers
thereof. And the President, Council
and Fellows, may appoint treasurers, secre-
taries and clerks, may have and employ
one serjeant at mace, and such other ser-
vants as they think necessary. And lastly,
if any abuses or differences shall arise,
the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord
Chancellor or Keeper of the Great Seal,
the Lord Privy Seal, and the two Secre-
taries of State for the time being, are
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appointed Visitors, with full power for
any three of them to compose and
redress such differences and abuses:
provision is also made to fill up any
vacancies that may happen by the death
of the President or any of the Council.
On the receipt of this charter, the first
President and Council nominated and
admitted, by a writing dated the 14th of
November 1751, all the former mem-
bers, together with some others, in the
whole 121, to be Fellows of the said
Society of Antiquaries of London, and
soon after drew up a body of statutes for
the good government thereof, which was
unanimously agreed to and confirmed
in the month of July 1752.
It was herein enacted, that the num-
ber of members should not exceed 150,
but that number being very soon filled
up, and several men of quality and fortune,
as well as persons of great learning and
eminence, being continually applying to
become members, which they could not be
till vacancies should happen by death, the
Society thought proper in the year 1755,
to enlarge their number to 180, (to which
they are limited at present) exclusive of
Peers, Privy Councellors and Judges, that
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