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12. The Council may fill up any vacancy that may occur iii the list of Officers 

 and Council. 



13. The Council shall meet at such times as they may determine; six members 

 shall form a quorum. 



The Council shall purchase such books, instruments, specimens, furniture and" 

 other necessaries as may be required, pass the accounts and authorise their payment, 

 and generally manage the affairs and administer the funds of the Association. 



14. The Council shall appoint a Publications Committee consisting of the Editors, 

 the Treasurer, two Ordinary Members of the Council and two Ordinary Members of 

 the Association. 



15. At a Council Meeting, prior to the Annual General Meeting, the Council shall 

 appoint one or more Auditors to audit the Treasurer's Accounts. 



16. All properties of the Association, both present and future, shall be deemed 

 to be vested in the Council of the Association for the time being, in conformity with 

 the provisions of the Literary and Scientific Institutions Act, 1854. 



17. No new Law shall be made nor any Law altered except on the proposition 

 of the Council or the requisition of at least ten members addressed to the Honorary 

 Secretaries. The new Laws or alterations of Laws shall be proposed in writing, signed 

 by the requisitionists and dehvered to one of the Honorary Secretaries a month 

 before an Extraordinary General Meeting, which shall be called for the purpose. 



Such proposed new Laws or alterations in the Laws shall be printed in the circular 

 convening the Meeting, and sent to all members resident in the United Kingdom 

 at least two weeks before the date of such Meeting. 



No new laws, alterations or amendments shall be passed except by a two-thirds 

 majority, when not less than fifteen members are present and voting. 



