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Rules. 



I The objects of " Thf Foreign Bird Club." shall be the mutual 

 encouragement ;incl assistance of the members in keeping and breeding all 

 species of Birds, and the exhibiting of Foreign Birds and the improvement 

 of Shows in regard^ to them. 



2. The Club shall be composed of members. Every member shall 

 pay an entrance tee of 2s. 6d., and an annual subscription of los. Sub- 

 scriptions shall be due and payable in a Ivance oh the ist of January in 

 each year. If any member's subscription shall be more than three months 

 overdue, he shall be suspended from all benefits of the Club,, and if more 

 tlian nine months overdue, notice of his having ceased' to be a Member of 

 the Club, and of the cause, may l>e published in Notices to .Members : and 

 on such notice being published he shall cease to be a member accordingly, 

 but his liability for overdue subscriptions shall continue. 



3. New Members shall be proposed in writing by a Member of 

 the Club ; 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 shall lodge with either of the 

 Secretaries objections to any Candidate, he shall not be elected, but the 

 signature to the signed objections myst be verified by jthe Scrutineer. The 

 Secretaries and the Scrutineer shall not disclose the names of the objectors. 



4. Any member 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 Aie 

 liable to the following year's subset iptioji. 



5. The Officers of the Club shall be elected from the Members, 

 and shall consist of a Preitident, one or more Vice-presidents, and Auditor, 

 a Scrutineer, one or more Secretaries, a Treasurer,; a Veterinary Surgeon, 

 a Council of Twenty-four Members, and such number of Judges as shall 

 from time to time be determined by the Council. The Editor, Secre- 

 taries, Treasurer, and Veterinary Surgeon shall be ex-officio members of the 

 Council. 



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



are eligible for re-election. The Editor. .Secretaries, and Treasurer shall 

 be elected trienially. The Council and Judges shall be elected in a manrier 

 hereinafter provided. The other officers shall be elected annually at a 

 meeting of the Council, immediately after their own election. 



