of the Council, and the same Fellows also objected to the repeal 

 of Section 1 of Chapter XII. of the Bye-laws (see p. 21). A 

 Motion -was made and seconded that the proposed alterations 

 should be put to the Meeting seriatim and not collectively, on the 

 ground that the Charter in empowering the Council to make and 

 alter Bye-laws, implies that such alterations shall be made seriatim, 

 inasmuch as it provides (p. 9) that no " Bye-law " (i. e. any 

 single Bye-law) " hereafter to be made, or alteration , or repeal of 

 " any Bye-law, shall be binding on the Society, until such Bye- 

 " law, or such alteration or repeal of any Bye-law, shall have 

 " been approved by two-thirds of the Fellows present at a Greneral 

 " Meeting." The President refused to put this Motion upon the 

 following grounds : — 



1st. That the initiation of alterations in the Bye-laws 

 rests solely with the Council, and that if any one of 

 the alterations should be rejected the whole must fall 

 to the ground, or at least go back to the Council for 

 reconsideratiou . 

 2nd. That upon all previous occasions of alterations in the 

 Bye-laws, the proposed alterations had been put to 

 the Meeting for confirmation or rejection en masse. 

 3rd. That it would be irregular to put the alterations 

 seriatim. 

 The proposed alterations were then put to the Meeting en masse, 

 and upon the ballot being taken the votes of forty-four FeUows 

 out of sixty-six (the whole number present) were in favour of the 

 alterations, and (one not voting) the votes of the remaining 

 twenty- one were against the alterations, and it was declared that 

 the alterations were carried. 



Those Fellows of the Society who disapprove of the alterations 

 in the Bye-laws, maintain that the proceedings of the 15th of 

 January were invalid upon the following gromids : — 



1st. That under Chapter IX. Section 1 of the Bye-laws, 

 the President was bound to put to the Meeting a 

 question which had been moved and seconded, viz. 

 a Motion that the proposed alterations in the Bye- 

 law's be put to the Meeting seriatim. 

 2nd. That the resolutions for the alterations of the Bye- 

 laws ought not to have been put to the Meeting en 

 masse, and that not putting them seriatim was con- 

 trary to the terms of the Charter. 



