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The Secretaries shall ascertain which of the members ai-e willing 

 to stand for election to office, and shall senfl to each member of 

 the Club, on or about the 15th of Xovember a voting paper contain- 

 ing a list of all such members, showing the offices for which they 

 are respecti^'ely seeking election. Each member shall make a (x) 

 opposite the names of those for whom he desires to vote, and shall 

 sign the paper at the foot and send it in a sealed envelope to the 

 Scrutineer, so that he may receive it before 5th of 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 Secretaries for publication in the Notices to Members 

 for December. The Scrutineer shall 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 the purpose of this 

 rule, any member who habitually ))uys birds with the intention of sell- 

 ing them again shall be deemed a bird dealer. Before the annual 

 election of officers, the Secretaries .shall sulimit to the Council the 

 list 01 members willing to stand for election to the Secretaryship, the 

 Treasuj'ership, and the Council ; and the Council shall 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 the 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 power to a Committee. 



9. The Council may appoint an Arbitration Committee, which 

 may decide questions at issue between members and associates, when 

 requested to do so by both parties. Any decision of such Com- 

 mittee shall be final. Except to the extend permitted by this rule, 

 the Club and its officers shall decline to concern themselves with 

 disputes between members . 



1 0. The Council shall have power to alter and add to these 

 Rules, but shall give to the members notice of any proposed alter- 

 ation or addition, and in the event of six members objecting thereto 

 within fourteen days the proposed alterations or addition shall be sub- 

 mitted to the votes of the members. Failing such objection the alter- 

 ation shall date from its adoption by the Council. 



11. The Council shall have power to expel any member or 

 or associate at any time. 



12. Neither the office of Scrutineer nor that of Auditor 

 shall be held for two consecutive years by the same person. The 

 Scrutineer shall not be a candidate at any election at which he acts 

 as Scrutineer. 



13. If any office becomes vacant at any time other than the 

 end of the current year of the Club, the Council shall have power 

 to appoint any member to fill the vacancy. 



t4. The decision of the majority of the Council shall be final 

 and binding on the Club, but a .resolution passed by the Council 

 shall not be acted upon unless there be an absolute niajority of the 

 Council (and not merely of those voting) in its favour. 



