290 Proceed in<i.^ oj Royal Society of Victoria. 



Votes required. 



Address by the 

 President. 



Duties of 

 Presidei 



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

 successor (under Law XI 11) as a senior Member, who 

 shall retire at the next Annual General Meeting. The 

 names of such Retiring OHicers are to be announced 

 at the Ordinary Meeting in December. The Officers 

 and Members of Council so retiring shall be eligible foi' 

 the same or any othei- office then vacant. 



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

 taries, and Librarian shall be sepai'ately elected by 

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

 order, and the six vacancies in the Council shall then 

 be filled up togethe)' by ballot at the General Meeting 

 in March. Those member-s only shall be eligible for 

 any office who have been pro]:)osed and seconded at the 

 Ordinary Meeting in December, or b> 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 which is to be 

 subsequently held. No ballot shall take place at any 

 meeting unless ten members be present. 



XL No Member, whose subscription is in arrear. 

 shall take part in the election of Officers or other 

 business of the meeting. 



XIL An address shall be delivered b}' the President 

 of the Society at eithei- a Dinner, Conversazione, or 

 extra meeting of the Society, as the Council may 

 determine in ea.ch year. 



XIII. If any vacancy occur among the Officers, 

 notice thereof shall be inserted in the summons for the 

 next meeting of the 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 pi-opositions to the meeting, 

 and re])ort the result of })allots, and carr^' into efi'ect 

 the regulations of the Society. In the absence of the 

 President, the chair shall be taken l)y one of the Vice- 

 Presidents, Treasurer, or Ordinary Member of Council, 

 in order of seniority. 



