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IV. That in the absence of the President and Vice-Presidents 

 the Members present at any ordinary Meetings of the Club shall 

 elect a Chairman for that evening. 



V. That every Candidate for Membershii? shall be proposed by 

 two or more Members, who shall sign a certificate (see Appendix) 

 in recommendation of him — one of the proposers from personal 

 knowledge. The certificate shall be read from the chair, and 

 the candidate therein recommended shall be balloted for at 

 the following Meeting, at which baUot three black balls shall 

 exclude. 



VI. That the Society shall include not more than twenty 

 Foreign Honorary Members, who shall from time to time be 

 elected by the Members by ballot, upon the recommendation of 

 the Committee. 



VII. That the Annual Subscription shall be Ten Shillings, 

 payable in advance on the 1st of July, but that any Member 

 elected in May or June shall be exempt from subscription until 

 the following July of the same year. That no person shall 

 be considered as a Member 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, shall, after two applications in 

 writing have been made by the Treasurer, be deemed to have 

 ceased to be connected with the Club. 



VIII. That the Accounts of the Club shall be audited by two 

 Members, one to be appointed by the Committee, and one to be 

 elected by the Members present at the Meeting in June. 



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

 Friday in July, at which a General Keport of the Committee on 

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

 Auditors, shall be read. The Committee shall hand in a list of 

 the names proposed for election as President, Vice-Presidents, 

 Treasurer, and Secretaries ; also the names of the four retuing 

 members of the Committee, and the names of the Members 

 recommended to fill their places; and the Chairman having 



