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Right of 

 \ oting. 



LAWS OF THE SOCIETY. 



V. Subscribing Members alone, sliall have tlie riglit of voting 

 at a Meeting. 



Chair, by 

 whom and 

 whea taken. 



VI. The President, if present, shall take the Chair at (he 

 Meetings; in his absence a Vice-President, and in the ab- 

 sence of the Vice-Presidents, a Member of the Council. The 

 Chair shall be taken as soon after Twelve o'clock, as five 

 Members shall have assembled. 



Decision of 

 Questions. 



VII. Questions proposed at a Meeting shall be determined 

 by a majority of votes ; and if the votes be equal, the Chair- 

 man shall have a second, Or casting vote. 



SECTION II. 



Officers. 



Council. 



OFFICERS AND COUNCIL. 



I. A President, six Vice-Presidents, a Treasurer, and 

 Secretaries, shall be chosen out of the Subscribing Members, 

 every year, at the Annual Meeting, and shall be re-eligible 

 from year to year. 



II. The AflFairs of the Society shall be conducted, in con- 

 formity with the Laws, by these Otficers, and a Council con- 

 sisting of twelve subscribing Members. 



Mode of Elec- 

 tion of Officers 

 and Council. 



III. Four new Members of the Council shall be chosen 

 yearly, out of the Subscribing Members of the Society, at the 

 Annual Meeting ; the supernumerary Members of the former 

 Council retiring in the order of seniority, (or, where the 

 seniority is undetermined, by lot,) and not being re-eligible for 

 the current year. 



IV. There shall be laid before each Subscribing Member 

 present at the Annual Meeting, a List of all the Subscribing 

 Members of the Society, and also a Balloting Paper. On the 



