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IV. — That in the absence of the President and Vice-Presi- 

 dents the Members present at any ordinary Meeting of the Club 

 elect a Chairman for that evening. 



V. — That every Candidate for Membership be proposed by 

 two or more Members, who shall sign a certificate (see Ap- 

 pendix) in recommendation of him — one of the proposers from 

 personal knowledge. The certificate shall be read from the 

 chair, and the Candidate therein recommended balloted for at 

 the following Meeting. Three black balls to exclude. 



VI. — That the Club include not more than twenty Honorary 

 Members, elected by the Members by ballot upon the recom- 

 mendation of the Committee. 



VII. — That the Annual Subscription be Ten Shillings, pay- 

 able in advance on the 1 st of January, but that any Member 

 elected in November or December be exempt from subscription 

 until the following January. That any Member desirous of 

 compounding for his future subscription may do so at any time 

 by payment of the sum of Ten Pounds ; all such sums to be 

 duly invested in such manner as the Committee shall think fit. 

 That no person be entitled to the full privileges of the Club until 

 his subscription shall have been paid ; and that any Member 

 omitting to pay his subscription six months after the same shall 

 have become due (two applications in writing having been made 

 by the Treasurer) shall cease to be a Member of the Club. 



VIII. — That the accounts of the Club be audited by two 

 Members, to be appointed at the ordinary Meeting in January. 



IX. — That the Annual General Meeting be held on the fourth 

 Friday in February, at which the Report of the Committee on 

 the affairs of the Club, and the Balance Sheet, duly signed by 

 the Auditors, shall be read. Printed lists of Members nominated 

 for election as President, Vice-Presidents, Treasurer, Secre- 

 taries, Reporter, Librarian, Curator, and Members of the Com- 

 mittee having been distributed, and the Chairman having ap- 

 pointed two or more Members to act as Scrutineers, the Meeting 

 shall then proceed to ballot. If from any cause these elections, 

 or any of them, do not take place at this Meeting, they shall be 

 made at the next ordinary Meeting of the Club. 



