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

 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 pro^josers 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 recom- 

 mendation of the Committee. 



VII. — That the Annual Subscription be Ten Shillings, pay- 

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

 in May or June be exempt from subscription until the following 

 July. 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 that any Member omitting to pay his subscrip- 

 tion six months after the same shall have become due (two ap- 

 plications in writing having been made by the Treasurer) shall 

 cease to be a Member of the Club. 



VIII. — That the accounts of the Club be audited by two Mem- 

 bers, to be appointed at the ordinary Meeting in June. 



IX. — That the Annual General meeting be held on the fourth 

 Friday in July, at which the Eeport 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, and Members of the Committee 

 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. 



