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Page 304 - ... such means of escape in case of fire for the persons employed therein as can reasonably be required under the circumstances of each case...
Page lvi - It shall be the duty of the Secretary, under the direction of the Council, to conduct the correspondence of the Institution ; to attend all meetings of the Institution, and of the Council, and of Committees ; to take minutes...
Page lv - The Treasurer shall be a Banker, and shall hold the uninvested funds of the Institution, except the moneys in the hands of the Secretary for current expenses.
Page lvi - Committees ; to take minutes of the proceedings of such meetings ; to read the minutes of the preceding meetings, and all communications that...
Page liv - D ; but his name shall not be added to the register of the Institution until he shall have paid his Entrance Fee and first Annual Subscription, and signed the Form E in the Appendix.
Page liv - The Council may at their discretion reduce or remit the annual subscription, or the arrears of annual subscription, of any Member or Associate Member who shall have been a subscribing member of the Institution for twenty years, and shall have become unable to continue the annual subscription provided by these By-laws.
Page lvi - Seven clear days' notice at least shall be given of every meeting of the Council. Such notice shall specify generally the business to be transacted by the meeting. No business involving the expenditure of the funds of the Institution (except by way of payment of current salaries and accounts) shall be transacted at any Council meeting unless specified in the notice convening the meeting.
Page lv - President, three for Vice-Presidents, one for Honorary Secretary, and fifteen for Ordinary Members of Council. In addition to these each Member of the Association shall be at liberty to nominate one Member for the Council, but in the event of the lastnamed Nominations exceeding fifteen, the Council shall reduce them to that number, so as to leave thirty names in all from which to elect the required number of Ordinary Members of Council. Members' Nominations must be in the hands of the Secretary on...
Page 11 - Dublin, without delay, by twelve free and lawful men of his county, to make inquisition, with water. advice of the Mayor and citizens, as to whence water can be best and most conveniently taken from its course and conducted to the King's city of Dublin, for the benefit of the city, and at the cost of the citizens, who have undertaken to pay the amount.
Page 386 - If the liquid falls perpendicularly, its descent will be accelerated in the same manner as that of falling solid bodies. (See Mechanics.) When water flows in a current, as in rivers, it is in consequence of the inclination of the channel, and its motion is referrible to that of solids descending an inclined plane ; but, from want of cohesion among its particles, the motions are more irregular than those of solids, and...