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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 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 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 recommen- 

 dation of the Committee. 



VII. — That the Annual Subscription be Ten Shillings, payable 

 in advance on the 1st 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 the Committee shall have power to 

 remove from the List of Members the name of any Member who 

 shall have omitted to pay his subscription six months after the 

 same shall have become due (two applications in writing having 

 been made by the Treasurer). 



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 third 

 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, Secretaries, 

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

 mittee having been distributed, and the Chairman having appointed 

 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. 



