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 RULES. 



1. The objects of "The Foreign Bird CIvUb" shall 

 be the miitnal eiicouiagement and assistance of the members 

 and associates in the keeping, breeding, and exhibiting of 

 foreign birds, and the improvement of shows in regard to 

 them. 



2. The Clnb shall be composed of members and associates. 

 Every member shall pay an entrance fee of 2/6 and an 

 annual subecription of 10/-. Every associate shall pay an 

 entrance fee of 2/6 and an annual subscription of 5/-. 

 Associates shall have such of the privileges of membeis as 

 the Council shall from time to time direct. Subscriptions 

 shall be due and payable in advance on the ist of March in 

 each year. If any member's or associate's subscription shall 

 be more than three months overdue he shall be suspended 

 from all the benefits of the Clnb, and if more than nine 

 mouths overdue, notice of his having ceased to be a member or 

 associate of the Club, and of the cause, may be published in 

 the Notices to Members; and on such notice being published 

 he shall cease to be a member or associate accordingly, but his 

 liabilit}' for the overdue subscription shall continue. 



3. New members shall be proposed in writing by a 

 member of the Club and new associates by either a member or 

 an associate: 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 lodge with either of the 

 Secretaries objections to anj- 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. Associates desirous to 

 become members shall go through the same form of election 

 as other candidates but shall not pay an entrance fee. 



4. Any member or associate 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 ist of February, 

 and in default of such notice he shall be liable for the following 

 year's subscription. 



5. 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 Council of twelve membeis, and such number of 

 Judges as shall from time to time be determined by the 

 Council. The Secretary or Secretaries and the Treasurer shall 

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

 .Secretaries, the Treasurer, the Council, and the Judges shall 



