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of Names, or if any List for Officers should include the Name of 
any Person not being a Member of the Council, such List shall 
be set aside, and not taken any account of by the Scrutineers in 
casting up the Number of Votes. 
IX. In case of an Equality of Votes for the Removal from the 
Council, or for the Electiori_oi*-T+re> trr more Persons, whose 
Number together shall exceed the Number to bv removed or 
elected exclusive of those having a Majority of Votes, the Excess 
of such Number shall be secluded by Lots, to be prepared by 
the Scrutineers and drawn by the President or Vice-President in 
the Chair ; and the Person or Persons whose Name or Names 
shall remain undrawn shall be declared to be removed from or 
elected into the Council, or elected to any of the Offices, as the 
Case may be. 
X. If Twenty-one Fellows at least do not appear and give in 
their Balloting-Lists during the Time limited for keeping the 
Ballot for the Council open, or if any Question should arise in 
the course of an Election, respecting the Forms thereof, and 
cannot be decided by the Fellows present, the Election shall be 
adjourned to the next convenient Day, of which Notice by 
Letter shall be given to all the Fellows of the Society, in the 
same Manner as is directed in the First Section of this Chapter. 
XL In case of a Vacancy in the Council, or among the Officers 
of the Society, happening during the Intervals of the Anniversary 
Elections, the Council shall appoint a Special General Meeting, 
for the Purpose of fdling up such Vacancy ; and the Summons 
for such Meeting, and the Proceedings at it, shall, as far as Cir- 
cumstances will admit, be after the same Manner as is directed 
for the Anniversary Elections. 
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