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9. An Annual General Meeting shall be held and shall ordinarily be the General 

 Meeting falling nearest to the end of the year or as the Council shall decide. 



At this meeting the order of business shall be: 



1. The reading of the minutes of the previous meeting. 



2. The reading of a report of the Council on the work of the past year. 



3. The statement of the Treasurer. 



4. The election of members. 



5. The election of Officers and other members of the Council. 



6. Other business. 



10. The business of the Association shall be conducted by a Council consisting 

 of a President, a Treasurer, the Secretaries, the Editors and twelve Ordinary Members. 

 Two members of Council shall be designated to act as Vice-Presidents. 



11. The Council shall select to retire from office at the Annual General Meeting 

 such number of its Ordinary Members as will cause four vacancies and no member 

 so selected for retirement, or otherwise vacating office, shall be eUgible for reappoint- 

 ment to the Couiicil as an Ordinary Member until after the lapse of twelve months. 

 A hst, containing the names of all members of Council who retii-e, and of those 

 other members of the Association proposed by the Council to replace them, shall be 

 sent to all members resident in the United Kingdom at least four weeks before the 

 date of the Annual General Meeting. Any two members shall be at liberty to transmit 

 to one of the Secretaries not less than fourteen days before the Annual General 

 Meeting an intimation signed by them both of their desire to add the name of a member 

 of the Association to the hst of Candidates for election to the Council. 



The Secretaries shall then when necessary issue to every Member resident in the 

 United Kingdom a completed Ust of the Nominations out of which the Association 

 at the Annual General Meeting shall select the names of Members appointed to fill 

 the vacancies on the Council. In this completed list of Nominations will be stated the 

 names of the Members proposing Candidates other than those proposed by the Council. 



At the Amiual General Meeting each Member present will receive a hst of the 

 names arranged alphabetically of all the Candidates proposed, and each ]\Iember 

 who votes shall hand in person to one of the Secretaries a copy of this hst on which 

 has been indicated the names of those Candidates whom the Member voting desires 

 to serve on the Council in place of those vacating office. 



When the ballot has been declared closed the Chairman shall appoint from among 

 the Members present two members of the Association not being Candidates for 

 election to serve as Scrutineers. In examining the Usts so handed in the Scrutineers 

 will set aside and take no account of any ballot-paper which supports Candidates 

 for more than the number of vacancies, and any ballot-paper which indicates the 

 identity of the ]\Iember voting. 



The Scrutineers shall report to the Chairman of the meeting the result of their 

 scrutiny and the Chairman before the close of the meeting shall announce the result 

 of the ballot. In the case of an equaUty of votes for any Candidates, the power of 

 selection between them shall rest with the Chairman of the meeting and shall be 

 exercised by him before he annomices the result of the ballot. 



The Council shall thereupon proceed to elect from their body the officers of the 

 Association for the ensuing year. 



