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II.— The Societ)' shall consist of Ordinary and Honorary Members, including 

 Ladies ; the number of Ordinary Members being unlimited, and the number of 

 Honorary Members being limited to twenty. 



III. — The management of the Society shall be vested in a Council consisting 

 of a President, four Vice-Presidents, a Treasurer, an Honorary Secretary and 

 Librarian, an Honorary Curator, and twelve other members, to be elected 

 annually, by ballot, at the Ordinary Meeting in February, which shall be the 

 Annual Meeting. The President shall not hold office for a longer term than two 

 years, and in each year the senior Vice-President, and the three senior ordinary 

 members of the Council, shall not be eligible for re-election; but the Council 

 shall have power to fill up, from these or other Members of the Society, any 

 vacancy that may occur during the year. 



IV. — The Ordinary Meetings of the Society shall be held in the rooms of the 

 "Watford Public Library on the second Thursday in each month (except during 

 the months of July, August, and September), at half-past seven o'clock in the 

 evening, the Council having power to alter the day and hour of meeting ; and 

 during the summer months Field Meetings shall also be held at such time and 

 place as the Council may direct. 



V. — Minutes shall be kept of the Ordinary Meetings of the Society and of 

 the meetings of the Council, and the minutes of each meeting shall be read as 

 the first business of the next ensuing meeting of the same kind. 



VI. — Members shall have the privilege of attending all the Ordinary and 

 Field Meetings of the Society, and of introducing one Visitor at any such 

 meeting, and shall be entitled to a copy of all Publications issued by the Society 

 during their membership. 



VII. — The Annual Subscription for Ordinary Members shall be Ten Shillings, 

 payable immediately after their election, and afterwards due in advance on the 

 1st of January in each year ; and all Members elected after the year of the 

 foundation of the Society shall pay an Entrance Fee of Ten Shillings. No 

 Member shall be entitled to any of the privileges of the Society whose subscrip- 

 tion is twelve months in arrear ; and any Member whose subscription is two 

 years in arrear may be excluded from the Society by the Council. 



VIII. — Any Ordinary Member may compound for his or her Annual Sub- 

 scriptions by a payment of Five Pounds. 



IX. — The Honorar)' Members shall be ladies or gentlemen of eminence in 

 Natural Science, or who shall have done some special service to the Societ)', and 

 whose usual place of residence is not in the County of Hertford or within twelve 

 miles of the town of Watford ; and they shall be elected only by the Members 

 upon the recommendation of the Council, not more than five to be elected in any 

 one year. 



X. — Every Candidate for admission shall be proposed by two or more 

 Members, who shall sign a certificate in recommendation of such candidate, one 

 of the proposers from personal knowledge. The certificate shall be read from 

 the Chair at the Ordinary Meeting following its receipt by the Secretary, and 

 the candidate shall then be balloted for, one black ball in six "excluding. 



XI. — Members wishing to resign at the termination of any year are required 

 to inform the Honorary Secretary, in writing, of their intention to do so, on or 

 before the 30th of November in that year. 



XII. — The Accoimts of the Society shall be made up to the 31st of December 

 in each year, and audited by two Auditors appointed at the Ordinary Meeting 

 following ; and the Balance Sheet, together with a Report on the general pro- 

 gress of the Society during the preceding year, shall be submitted to the Annnal 

 Meeting in February. 



XIII. — The Society shall discourage the practice of removing rare plants 

 from the localities of which they are characteristic, and of exterminating rare 

 birds, fish, and other animals, and shall use its influence with landowners and 

 others for the protection of the characteristic birds of the County, and of the 

 neighbourhood of Watford in particular ; the rarer botanical specimens ((illcctcti 

 at the Field Meetings shall be chiefly such as can be gathered without (listuil)ing 

 the roots of the plants ; and notes on the habits of birds shall be accunuiluttid 

 instead of specimens, either of the birds or of their eggs. 



