Rules. 



1. The objects of " The Foreign Bird Club'" shall be the mutual 

 encouragement and 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 

 pav an entrance fee of 2s. 6d., and an annual subscription of los Subscrip- 

 tions shall be due and payable in advance on 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 than nine 

 months overdue, notice of his having ceased to be a Member of the Club, 

 and of the cause, may be 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 slvill 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 Mem- 

 bers. 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 must be verified by the 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 intention to one of the Secretaries before the 

 31st of December, and in default of such notice he shall be liable to the 

 following year's subscription. 



3. The Officers of the Club shall be elected from' the Members, and 

 shall consist of a President, one or more Vice-presidents, an 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, Secretaries, Treas- 

 urer, and Veterinary Surgeon shall be e.v-ofhcio 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 bf 

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

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

 meeting of the Council, immediatelv after their own election. 



