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SECTION V.— (MEETINGS.) 



1. Ordinary Meetings shall be held once a month, on .-ueh days and at such Lou 1 

 as the Society by resolution may from time to time agree upon. 



2. The Annual General Meeting of the Society shall be held at the place and 

 during the same time as the Exhibition of the Agricultural and Aits Association is 

 being held in each year, to receive and deliberate upon the Report of the Council on 

 the state of the Society, to elect Officers and Directors for the ensuing year, and to 

 transact any other business of which notice has been given. 



3. Special Meetings of the Society may be called by the President upon the 

 written request of five members of the .Society, provided that one week's notice of the 

 meeting he given, and thai its object be specified. 



SECTION VI.-(BRANCHES OF THE SOCIETY.) 



1. Branches of the Society may be formed in any place within the Dominion of 

 Canada on a written application to tiie Society from at least six persons resident in the 



locality. 



2. Each Branch shall he required to pay to the Parent Society fifty cents per 

 annum to: each paying member on its list. 



3. Every Branch shall be governed by the constitution <>f the Society, hut shall 

 have power to elect its own officers, and enact by-laws for itself, ptovided they be not 

 cinerary to the tenor and spirit of the Constitution of the whole Society. 



4. All the members of the Branches shall be members of the Society and entitled 

 to all the privileges of Ordinary Members. 



5. No Associate or Honorary Member shall be appointed by the Branches, but 

 such members may be proposed at General Meetings of the Society by any Branch, as 

 well as by individual memo* is. 



6. Each Branch shit 11 transmit to the Parent Society on or i efore the first of 

 September in each year, an Annual Report of its proceedings, such Report to be read 

 at the Annu.il General M 'otiu '. 



SECTION" V1L— (ALTERATION OF CONSTITUTION.) 



1. No article in any secti >n of this Constitution shall be altered or added to, 

 unless notice be first given at an ordinary meeting of the Society, or of a Branch, and 

 the alteration or addition be sanctioned by two-thirds of the members present at the 

 next ensuing meeting; the Secretary of the Society, or of the Branch, shall then notify 

 the Secretaries of all the other Branches ; when the sanction of all the Branches has 

 b:en obtained in the same manner, the alteration or addition shall become law. 



