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5. The officers of the Clnb shall be elected frotii the 

 iiietiibers and shall consist of a President, one or more Vice- 

 Presidents, an Anditor, a Scrntiiieer, one or more Secretaries, 

 a Treasnrer, a Council of twelve members, and such number of 

 Judges as shall from time to time be determined by the 

 Council, Tlie ^Secretary or Secretaries and the Treasurer shall 

 be ex-officio members of the Council. The Secretary or 

 Secretaries, the Treasurer, the Council, and the Judu;es shall 

 be elected annually by tlie members in manner hereinafter 

 provided. The other officers shall be elected annually by the 

 Council immediately after their own eleciion. 



6. The election of the Secretary or Secretaries, Treasurer, 

 Council, and Judges shall take place every year between the 

 15th of January and the 5th of Februar}'. The .Secretaries 

 shall ascertain which of the members are willing to staml for 

 election to office, and shall send to each member of the Club, 

 on or about the 15th of January, a voting paper containing a 

 list of all such metnbers, showing the offices for which they are 

 respectively seeking election. Kach member shall make a cross 

 (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 the 5th of 

 February. 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 February. 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 buys birds with the 

 intention of selling them again shall be deemed a dealer in 

 birds. Before the annual election of officers the .Secretaries 

 shall submit to the Council the list of members willing to 

 stand for election to the Secretarj'ship, the Treasurership, and 

 the Council, and the Council shall remove from the list the 

 uaTiie 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 powers 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. 



