174 Proceedings of Royal Society of Victoria. 



Special Meetings 

 of Council. 



Special General 



Jleetings. 



Annual Report. 



Auditors. 



Expulsion of 

 Members. 



Election of 

 Members and 

 Associates. 



considered to have vacated his office, and the election 

 of a Member to fill his place shall be proceeded with at 

 the next Ordinary Meeting of Members, in accordance 

 with Law XIII. 



XVIII. One of the Secretaries shall call a Special 

 Meeting of Council on the author! t}'' of the President or 

 of three members of the Council. The notice of such 

 meeting shall specify the object for which it is called, 

 and no other business shall be entertained. 



XIX. The Council shall call a Special Meeting of the 

 Society, on receiving a requisition in writing signed 

 b}^ twenty-four members of the Society, specifying the 

 purjiose for wliich the meeting is required, or upon a 

 I'esolution of its own. No other business shall be enter- 

 tained at such Meetinfj. Notice of such meetinor, and 

 the purpose for which it is summoned, shall be sent to 

 every Member at least ten days before the meeting. 



XX. The Council shall annually prepare a Report 

 of the Proceedings of the Society during the past year, 

 embodying the Balance-sheet, duly audited by two 

 Auditors, to be appointed for the year at the Ordinary 

 Meetincj in December, exhibitino- a statement of the 

 present position of the Society. This Report shall be 

 laid before the Society at the Annual Meeting in March. 

 No ])aper sh.all be read at that meeting. 



XXI. If it shall come to the knowledge of the 

 Council that the conduct of an Officer, a Member, or 

 an Associate is injurious to the interest of the Society, 

 and if two-thirds of the Council present shall be 

 satisfied, after opportunity of defence has been afforded 

 to him, that such is the case, it may call upon him to 

 I'esign, and shall have the power to expel him from the 

 Society, or remove him from any office therein at its dis- 

 cretion. In every case, all proceedings shall be entered 

 u])on the minutes. 



XXII. Every candidate for election as Member or as 

 Associate shall be ])roposed and seconded by Members 

 of the Society. The name, the address, and the 

 occupation of every candidate, with the names of his 

 proposer and of his seconder, shall be communicated in 

 writing to one of the Secretaries, and shall be read at a 

 meeting of Council, and also at the following meeting 



