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Proceedings of Royal Society of Victoria. 



Election of 

 Officers. 



Votes required. 



Members in 

 Arrear. 



Address by the 

 President. 



Vacancies. 



Duties of 

 President. 



March. Should a senior Member's seat become vacant 

 in the course of the year, it shall be held by his 

 successor (under Law XIII) as a senior Member, who 

 shall retire at the next Annual General Meetiug. The 

 names of such Hetiriiig Officers are to be announced 

 at the Ordinary Meeting in December, The Officers 

 and Members of Council so retirins: shall be elioible for 

 the same or any other office then vacant. 



X. The President, Vice-Presidents, Treasurer, Secre- 

 taries, and Librarian shall be separately elected by 

 ballot (should such be demanded), in the above-named 

 order, and the six vacancies in the Council shall then 

 be filled up together by ballot at the General Meeting 

 in March. Those members only shall be eligible for 

 any office who have been proposed and seconded at the 

 Ordinary Meeting in December, or by letter addressed 

 to one of the Secretaries, and received by him before 

 the 1st March, to be laid before the Council Meeting 

 next before the Annual Meeting in March. The 

 nomination to any one office shall be held a nomina- 

 tion to any office, the election to vs^hich is to be 

 subsequently held. No ballot shall take place at any 

 meeting unless ten members be pi'esent. 



XL No Member, whose subscription is in arrear, 

 shall take part in the election of Officers or other 

 business of the meeting. 



XII. An address shall be delivered by the President 

 of the Society at either a Dinner, Conversazione, or 

 extra meeting of the Society, as the Council may 

 determine in each year. 



XIII. If any vacancy occur among the Officers, 

 notice thereof shall be inserted in the summons for the 

 next meeting of tlie Society, and the vacancy shall be 

 then filled up by ballot. 



XIV. The President shall take the chair at all 

 meetings of the Society and of the Council, and shall 

 regulate and keep order in all their proceedings ; he 

 shall state questions and propositions to the meeting, 

 and report the result of ballots, and carry into effect 

 the regulations of the Society. In the absence of the 

 President, the chair shall be taken by one of the Vice- 

 Presidents, Treasurer, or Ordinary Member of Council, 

 in order of seniorit}^ 



