Series 3 > Foreign correspondence with Marie de Lorraine, Queen of Scotland, from the originals in the Balcarres papers > Volume 7

RULES
1. The object of the Society is the discovery and printing,
under selected editorship, of unpublished documents illus¬
trative of the civil, religious, and social history of Scotland.
The Society will also undertake, in exceptional cases, to issue
translations of printed works of a similar nature, which have
not hitherto been accessible in English.
2. The affairs of the Society shall be managed by a Council,
consisting of a Chairman, Treasurer, Secretary, and twelve
elected Members, five to make a quorum. Three of the twelve
elected Members shall retire annually by ballot, but they shall
be eligible for re-election.
3. The Annual Subscription to the Society shall he One
Guinea. The publications of the Society shall not be delivered
to any Member whose Subscription is in arrear, and no
Member shall be permitted to receive more than one copy of
the Society’s publications.
4. The Society will undertake the issue of its own publica¬
tions, i.e. without the intervention of a publisher or any other
paid agent.
5. The Society normally issues yearly two octavo volumes of
about 320 pages each.
6. An Annual General Meeting of the Society shall be held
at the end of October, or at an approximate date to be
determined by the Council.
7. Two stated Meetings of the Council shall he held each
year, one on the last Tuesday of May, the other on the Tues¬
day preceding the day upon which the Annual General Meeting
shall be held. The Secretary, on the request of three Members
of the Council, shall call a special meeting of the Council.
8. Editors shall receive 20 copies of each volume they edit
for the Society.
9. The owners of Manuscripts published by the Society will
also be presented with a certain number of copies.
10. The Annual Balance-Sheet, Rules, and List of Members
shall be printed.
11. No alteration shall be made in these Rules except at a
General Meeting of the Society. A fortnight’s notice of any
alteration to be proposed shall be given to the Members of the
Council.