RULES. 



1. The objects of "The Foreign Bird-club '' shall be the 

 mutual encouragement and assistance of the members and asscio- 

 ates in the keeping, breeding, and exhibiting of Foreign Birds, and 

 the improvement of Shows in regard to them. 



2. The club shall be composed of members and associates. 

 Every member shall pay an entrance fee of 2s. (id. and an annual 

 subscription of 10s. Every associate shall pay an entrance fee 

 of 2s. Gd. and an annual subscription of 5s. Associates shall have 

 such of the privileges of members as the Council shall from time 

 to time direct. Subscriptions shall be due and payable in advance 

 on the 1st of January in each year. If any member's or associate's 

 subscriptions shall be more than three months overdue, he shall be 

 suspended frcm all the benefits of the Club, and if more than nine 

 months overdue, notice of his having ceased to be a member or 

 associate, of the Club, and of the cause, may be published in 

 Notices to Members ; and on such notice being published he shall 

 cease to be a member or associate accordingly, but his liability for 

 overdue subscriptions shall continue. 



3. New members shall be proposed in writing by a member 

 of the ( "lub, and new associates by either a member or an associate ; 

 and the name and address of every person thus proposed, with the 

 name of the person proposing him, shall be publisned in the Notices 

 to Members. Unless the candidate shall, within fourteen days after 

 the publication of his name, be objected to by at least two mem- 

 bers, he shall be duly elected. If two or more members shall 

 lodge with either of tlie Secretaries objections to any candidate, he 

 shall not be elected, but the signature to be signed objections must be verified 

 by the Sci'utiueer. The Secretaries and the Scrutineer shall not dis- 

 close the names of the objectors. Associates desirous to become 

 members shall go through the same form of election as other candi- 

 dates, but shall not pay an entrance fee. 



4. Any member or associate wishing to resign at the end 

 of the current' year of the Club shall give notice of his intention 

 to one of the Secretaries before the 31st of December, and in 

 default of such notice he shall be liable to the following year's 

 subscription. 



5. The officers of the Club shall be elected from the mem- 

 bers, and shall consist of a President, one or more Vice-Presidents, an 

 Auditor, a Scrutineer, one or more Secretaries, a Treasurer, a Council 

 of twelve members, and such number of Judges as shall from time 

 to time be determined by the Council. The Secretary or Secretaries 

 and the Treasurer shall be ex -officio members of the Council. The 

 Secretary or Secretaries and Treasurer shall be elected trienially. 

 The Council and the Judges shall he elected annually by the members 

 in manner hereinafter provided. The other officers shall be elected 

 annually at a meeting of the Council immediately after their own 

 election. 



6. The election of the Council and the Judges shall take place 

 every year between the 15th of November and the 5th of December 



