(-ouiicil of Twenty-four Members and such number of Judges as shall from 

 time to time be determined by the Council. The Editor, Secretaries, Treas- 

 urer, President and Veterinary Surgeon shall be ex-officio members of the 

 Council. 



Three Members of the Council shall retire annually by seniority, but 

 are eligible for re-election. The Editor, Secretaries, and Treasurer shall be 

 elected trienially. The Council and judges '^hall be elected in a manner 

 hereinafter provided. The other ofiicers shall be elected annually at a 

 meeting of the Council, immediately after their own election. 



6. The election for the three annual vacancies on the Council, and the 

 Judges, shall take place every year between the 15th November and the 5th 

 December. The Secretaries shall a.scertain which of the Members are willing 

 to stand for election to office, and shall send to each Member of the Club, on 

 or about the 15th of November, a voting paper containing a list of all such 

 members, showing the offices for which they are respectively seeking election. 

 Each Member shall make a (x) opposite the names of those for whom he 

 desires to vote, and shall sign the paj)er at the foot, and send it in a sealed 

 envelope to the Scrutineer, so that he may receive it before 5th December. 

 The Scrutineer shall prepare a return of the officers elected, showing the 

 number of votes recorded for each Candidate, and send it to one of the Secre- 

 taries for publication in the Notices to Members for Decem' .r. The 

 Scrutineer sliall not reveal to any person how any Member shall have voted. 

 In the event of an equality of votes the president shall have a casting vote. 



7. Dealers in birds shall not be eligible for election to any office in 

 the Club, except that of Judge. For tiie purpose of this rule, any Member 

 who habitually buys birds with the intention of selling them again, shall be 

 deemed a bird dealer. Before the annual election of officers, the Secretaries 

 shall submit to the Council the list of Members willing to stand for election 

 to the Secretaryship, the Treasurership, and the Council ; and the Council 

 sl'.all remove from the list the name of any Candidate who shall be, in the 

 opinion of the Council, a dealer in birds, within the meaning of this rule. The 

 decision of the Council or of any Committee to whom the Council shall 

 delegate its power under this rule, shall be final. When a dealer is proposed 

 as a Member of this Club, the fact of his being a dealer shall be stated in 

 the Notices to Members. 



8. It shall be lawful for the Council to delegate any of its powers to 

 a committee. 



9. The Council may appoint an Arbitration Committee, which may 

 decide questions at issue between Members, when requested to do so by both 

 parties. Any decision of such Committee shall be final. Except to the 

 extent permitted by this rule, the Club and its officers shall decline to concern 

 themselves with disputes between Members. 



10. The Council shall have power to alter and add to these Rules, but 

 .shall give the members notice of any proposed alteration or addition, and in 

 the event of six members objecting thereto within fourteen days, the proposec 

 alterations or additions shall be submitted to the votes of the Members. 

 Failing such objection the alteration shall date from its adoption by the 

 Council. 



