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RULES. 



T. The objects of "The; Foreign Bird Cr,UB" shall 

 be the uuilual eucourageiiietit and assistance of llie nieinhers 

 and associates in the keeping, breeding, and exhibiting of 

 foreign birds, and the improvement of shows in regaril to 

 them. 



2. The Club shall he composed of members and associates. 

 Ever}- member shall pay an entrance fee of 2/6 and an 

 annual subscription of 10/-. Kvery associate shall pav ail 

 entrance fee of 2/6 ami an annual subscription of 5/-. 

 Associates shall have such of the privileges of members as 

 the Council shall from time to time direct. vSul)scriptions 

 shall be due and payable in advance on the ist of JVIarch in 

 each year. If any member's or associate's snlxscription shall 

 be more than three months overdue he shall be suspended 

 from 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 

 the Notices to Members; and on such notice being published 

 lie shall cease to be a member or associate accordingly, but his 

 liability for the overdue subscription shall continue. 



3. New members shall be proposed in writing by a 

 member of the Club and new associates by either a member of 

 an associate: and the name and address of every person thus 

 proposed, with the name of the person proposing him, shall be 

 published 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 members, he shall be duly 

 elected. If two or more members lodge with eitiier of the 

 Secretaries objections to anj' candidate he shall not be elected, 

 but the signature to the signed objections must be verified by 

 the Scrutineer. The Secretaries and the Scrutineer shall not 

 disclose tlie names of the objectors. Associates desirous to 

 become members shall go through the same form of election 

 as othei candidates 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 end of February, 

 and in default of such notice he shall be liable for the following 

 year's subscription. 



