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be elected aiiunally by the members in mauiier hereinafter 

 provided. The other officers shall be elected annually by the 

 Couuoil immediately after their own election. 



6. The election of the Secretary or vSecretaries, Tieasurer, 

 Council, and Judges shall take place every year between the 

 15th of January and the 5th of P'ebruary. The Secretaries 

 shall ascertain which of the members are willing to stand for 

 election to office, and shall send to each member of the Club, 

 on or about the 15th of January, a voting paper containing a 

 list of all such members, showing the offices for which they are 

 respectively seeking election. Each member shall make a 

 cross (x) apposite 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 the Scrutineer, so that he may receive it before the 

 5th of February. The Scrutineer shall prepare a return of the 

 officers ellected, showing the number of votes recorded for 

 each candidate, and send it to one of the Secretaries for publi- 

 cation in the Notices to Members for Februar}'. The Scruti- 

 neer shall not reveal to any person how any member shall have 

 voted. lu the event of au equality of votes the President 

 shall have a casting vote. 



7. Dealers in birds shall not be eligible for election to any 

 office in the Club, except that of Judge. For the purpose ot 

 this rule, an}- member who habitually buys birds with the 

 intention of selling them again shall be deemed a dealer in 

 birds. Before the annual election of officers, the vSecretaries 

 shall submit to the Council the list of members willing to 

 stand for election to the Secretaryship, the Treaturership, and 

 the Council, and the Council shall remove from the list the 

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

 Council, a dealer in birds within the meaning of this rule. 

 The decision of the Council, or of an}' Committee to whom 

 the Council shall delegate its powers under this rule, shall be 

 final. When a dealer is proposed as a member of the Club, 

 the fact of his 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 and 

 associates when requested to do so by both parties. Any 

 decision of such Committee shall be final. Except to the 

 extent permitted by this rule, the Club and its officers shall 

 decline to concern themselves with disputes between members. 



ID. The Council .shall have power to alter and add to the 

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

 alteration or addition, and in the event of six members ob- 

 jecting thereto within fourteen days the proposed alteration or 

 addition shall be submitted to the votes of the members. 

 Failing such objection the alteration or addition shall date 

 from its adoption by the Council. 



