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subscription, they shall be entitled to receive all the numbers of the Society's

Magazine for the current year.


6. — Members intending to resign their membership at the end of the

current year of the Society are expected to give notice to the Secretary before the

1st of December, so that their names may not be included in the " List of

Members ", which shall be published annually in the January number of the

Magazine.


7. — The Magazine of the Society shall be issued on or about the first day of

every month, and forwarded, post free, to all the Members who shall have paid

their subscriptions for the year ; but no Magazine shall be sent or delivered to any

Member until tin annual subscription shall have reached the hands of the Business

Secretary or the Publishers. Members whose subscriptions shall not have been

paid as above by the first day in November in any year shall cease to be Members

of the Society, and shall not be re-admitted until a fresh entrance fee, as well as

the annual subscription, shall have been paid.


8. — The Secretary, Editor, and Treasurer shall be elected for a term of five

years, and, should a vacancy occur, it may be temporarily filled up by the

Executive Committee (see Rule 10). At the expiration of the term of five years in

every case it shall be competent for the Council to nominate the same officer, or

another Member, for a further time of live years, unless a second candidate be

proposed by not less than twenty-five Members of at least two years' standing, as

set forth below.


In the November number of the Magazine preceding the retirement from

office of the Secretary, Editor, or Treasurer, the Council shall publish the names

of those gentlemen whom they have nominated to fill the vacancies thus created ;

and these gentlemen shall be deemed duly elected unless another candidate or

candidates be proposed by not less than fifteen Members of at least two years'

standing. Such proposal, duly seconded and containing the written consent of the

nominee to serve, if elected, in the capacity for which he is proposed, must reach

the Secretary on or before the 15th of November.


The Council shall also publish yearly in the November number of the

Magazine the names of those gentlemen nominated by them for the posts of

Auditor and Scrutineer respectively.


9. — The Members of the Council shall retire by rotation, two at the end of

each year of the Society (unless a vacancy or vacancies shall occur otherwise) and

two other Members of the Society shall be recommended by the Council to take

the place of those retiring. The names of the two Members recommended shall

be printed in the November number of The Avicultural Magazine. Should the

Council's selection be objected to by fifteen or more Members, these shall have

power to put forward two other candidates, whose names, together with the

signatures of no less than fifteen Members proposing them, must reach the



