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4. Any member wisJiing to I'csign at the end of tlie current 

 year of the Club shall give notice of his intention to one of the 

 fc'ecretaries before the 31st of December, and in default of such 

 notice ho shall be liable to the following yeai''s subscription. 



5. The Ollicers of the Club shall be elected from the 

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

 dents, an Auditor, a Scrutineer, one or more Secretaries, a 

 Treasurer, a Veterinary Suigeon, and a Council of Eighteen mem- 

 bers, and such number of Judges as shall from, time to time be 

 determinea by tlie Council., Tiie 'Editor, Secretaries, Treasurer, 

 and Veteiiuary Surgeon shall be ex-iofficio members of the Council. 

 Three Members of the Council retire annually by seniority, but are 

 eligible for ro-.election. The Editor, Secretaries, and Treasurer 

 shall be elected trienially. The Council and Judges shall be elected 

 in a mannei- lieieinafLei' provided. The other ollicers shall be elected 

 annually at a meeting of tlie Council, immediately after tlieir own 

 election. 



6. The election for the three annuaf vacancies on the 

 Council, and the Judges, shall take place every year between the 

 15th of November and the otii of December, 'ihe Secretaries shall 

 ascertain which of tlie members are willing to stand for election to 

 olBce, and shall send to each member of the Club or or about 

 the 15th of November a voting paper containing a list of al] 

 such members, showing the oliices for which they are respectively 

 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 tlie Scru- 

 tineer, so that he may receive it before 5tli of December. The 

 Scrutineer shall prepare a return of the officers elected, showing the 

 number of votes recorded for each canditlate, and send it to one 

 of the Secretaries for publication m 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 Lirds shall not be eligible for 'election to any 

 office in the Club, except that of Judge. For the pur])ose of this 

 rule, any member who iiaiiiiually buys birds with the intention of sell- 

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

 election of officers, the Secretaries shall submit to the Council tlie 

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

 Treasurership, and the Council: and the Council shall rem'ove I'lom 

 the list the name of any candidate who shall be, in the opinion of 

 the Council, a dealer in birds, w.tliin 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 liis being 

 a dealer shall be stated in the Notices to Members. 



8. It shall be lawful for the Council to delegate any of 

 its powers to a Committee. 



9. The Council may appoint an Arbitration Committee, which 

 may decide questions at issue between members or assof;iat(!s, when 

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

 mittee shall be linal. Except to the extent permitted by this rule, 

 the Club and its officers shall decline to concern themselves with 

 disputes between members. 



10. The Council shall have power to alter and add to the.se 

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

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



