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Management, except as regards the election of Fellows, shall be brought forward, 

 unless the same shall have been announced in the notice calling the Meeting, or be 

 otherwise provided for in these Rules. But the Minute-book of the Council shall 

 be on the table at each Meeting, and extracts therefrom may be read to the Meeting 

 on the requisition of any Fellow. 



56. No paper shall be read at any Ordinary Meeting of the Institute unless it 

 shall have been approved of by the Council or by the Committee on Papers and 

 Publications ; but this approval shall not be taken as expressing an opinion upon the 

 statements made or the arguments used in such Paper. 



Special Meetings. 



57. The Council may at any time call a Special General Meeting of the Institute, 

 and it shall be imperative on the Council to summon such Meeting, whenever required 

 in writing so to do by at least twenty-five Fellows of the Institute. 



58. A week's notice at least of the time when, and the object for which, every 

 Special Meeting is to be holden shall be sent to every Resident Fellow and to every 

 Non-Resident Fellow of the Institute who has registered an address for service in the 

 United Kingdom ; and no other business than that of which notice has been thus 

 given shall be entered upon or discussed at such Meeting. 



59. A Special General Meeting, convened as herein provided, may be holden on 

 any one of the days appointed for the Ordinary General Meetings, in which case the 

 special business shall be entered upon immediately after the ordinary business of the 

 day is closed. 



60. Thirty Fellows must be present to constitute a Special General Meeting. 



Annual Meeting. 



61. The Annual Meeting shall be held not later than the month of May. 



62. Every Non-Resident Fellow shall be at liberty to register at the Institute 

 an address for service of notices in the United Kingdom. 



63. Notice of this Meeting shall be sent to every Resident Fellow and to every 

 Non-Resident Fellow of the Institute who has registered an address for service in 

 the United Kingdom, together with the Voting List referred to in Rule 65, and such 

 notice and Voting List shall be sent as soon after the Ordinary Meeting referred to 

 in Rule 65 as possible, and at least fourteen days before the day of the Annual Meeting. 

 Notice of the Annual Meeting shall also be inserted in two or more English newspapers 

 at least one week before the day of the Meeting. 



64. The business of this Meeting shall be to receive and discuss the Annual Report 

 of the Council, to hear the President's Address, to announce the result of the voting 

 for the election of Fellows to fill the vacancies on the Council, and to consider such 

 business as shall be brought forward by the Council or with the sanction of the Council, 

 and which shall have been stated in the notice convening such Meeting. 



65. For the purpose of filling the vacancies annually occurring under the provisions 

 of Rule 7 in the Council, the Council shall prepare a List of Fellows, to be nominated 

 by them as suitable to fill the vacancies to occur at the end of the year in the offices 

 of President, Vice-President, Treasurer, and Councillors. The Council shall nominate 

 a sufiicient number of Fellows to fill the vacancies for that year, and then there shall 

 be added to such List the name of any Fellow nominated since the last Annual General 

 Meeting in writing by not less than twenty Resident Fellows for the office of Councillor, 



