Meetings of 

 Council. 



Quorum. 



Special Meetingp 

 of Council. 



Special General 

 Meetings. 



Annual Report. 



Expulsion of 

 Members. 



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XVII. The Council shall meet on any day within one 

 week before every Ordinary Meeting of the Society. 

 Notice of such meeting shall be sent to every member at 

 least two days pi-eviously. No business shall be transacted 

 at any meeting of the Council unless five members be 

 jDresent. Any member of Council absenting himself from 

 three consecutive meetings of Council, without satisfactory 

 explanation in writing, shall be considered to have vacated 

 his office, and the election of a member to fill his place 

 shall be proceeded with at the next Ordinary Meeting of 

 Members, in accordance with Law XIII. 



XVIII. The Secretary shall call a Special Meeting 

 of Council on the authority of the President or of three 

 Members of the Council. The notice of such meeting 

 shall specify the object for which it is called, and no other 

 business shall be entertained. 



XIX. Tlie Council shall call a Special Meeting of the 

 Society, on receiving a requisition in writing signed by 

 twenty-four Members of the Society, specifying the purpose 

 for which the meeting is required, or upon a resolution of 

 its own. No other business shall be entertained at such 

 meeting. Notice of such meeting, and the purpose for 

 which it is summoned, shall be sent to every Member at 

 least ten days before the meeting. 



XX. The Council shall annually prepare a Report of 

 the Proceedings of the Society during the past year, 

 embodying the Balance Sheet, duly audited by two Auditors, 

 to be appointed for the year at the Ordinary Meeting in 

 December, exhibiting a statement of the present position of 

 the Society. This Report shall be laid before the Society 

 at the Annual Meeting in ]\Iarch. No paper shall be read 

 at that meeting. 



XXI. If it shall come to the knowledge of the Council 

 that the conduct of an Officer, a Member, or an Associate 

 is injurious to the interest of the Society, and if two-thirds 

 of the Cpuncil present shall be satisfied, after opportunity 

 of defence has been atibrdcd to him, that such is the case, 



