"تاريخ أئمة وأسياد عُمان بقلم سليل ابن رزيق، من ٦٦١-١٨٥٦ م، مترجم من الأصل العربي، ومُحرّر بملاحظات وملاحق ومقدمة تواصل التاريخ حتى سنة ١٨٧٠، بقلم جورج بيرسي بادجر، عضو في الجمعية الجغرافية الملكية والقس الراحل في رئاسة بومباي." [‎٨] (٦١٢/٦٠٥)

8
LAWS OF THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY.
I. The objedl of this Society lhall be to print, for diftribution among its
members, rare and valuable Voyages, Travels, Naval Expeditions, and other
geographical records, from an early period to the beginning of the eighteenth
century.
II. 1 he Annual Subfcription (hall be One Guinea, payable in ad /ance on
the ist January.
III. Each member of the Society, having paid his Subfcription, (hall be
entitled to a copy of every work produced by the Society, and to vote at the
general meetings within the period fubfcribed for; and if he do not fignify,
before the clofe of the year, his with to refign, he fliall be confidered as a mem
ber for the fucceeding year.
IV. The management of the Society's affairs fhall be vefted in a Council
confifting of twenty-one members, viz., a Prefident, two Vice-Prefidents, a
Secretary, and feventeen ordinary members, to be elected annually; but
vacancies occurring between the general meetings fhall be filled up by the
Council.
V. A General Meeting of the Subfcribers fliall be held annually. The
Secretary's Report on the condition and proceedings of the Society fliall be then
read, and the Meeting fliall proceed to eledl the Council for the enfuing year.
VI. At each Annual Eledlion, fix of the old Council fliall retire, of whom
three fliall be eligible for re-eledlion.
VII. The Council fliall meet every month, excepting Auguft, September,
Odlober, and November, for the difpatch of bufinefs, three forming a quorum,
including the Secretary, and the Chairman having a catling vote.
VIII. Gentlemen preparing and editing works for the Society, fliall receive
twenty-five copies of fuch works refpectively, and an additional twenty-five
copies if the work is alfo tranflated.
RULES FOR THE DELIVERY OF THE SOCIETYS VOLUMES.
I. The Society's produdlions will be delivered without any charge, within
three miles of the General Poft Office.
II. They will be forwarded to any place beyond that limit, the Society
paying the coft of booking, but not of carriage; nor will it be anfwerable in
this cafe for any lofs or damage.
III. They will be delivered by the Society's agent, Mr. Thos. Richards,
37, Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, to perfons having written
authority of fubfcribers to receive them.
IV. They will be fent to the Society's correfpondents or agents in the prin
cipal towns throughout the kingdom ; and care fliall be taken that the charge
for carriage be as moderate as poflible.