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and the business shall be transacted in the manner prescribed in 

 the preceding articles of this chapter ; and the Council and officers 

 elected on the preceding anniversary shall continue to conduct 

 the affairs of the Society until their successors are elected. 



CHAPTER XIII. 



Special General Meetings. 



Art. I. Special general meetings of the Fellows may be 

 held from time to time, as there may be occasion, for the pur- 

 pose of taking special matters, relating to the business of the 

 Society, into consideration. 



Art. II. A week's notice, at least, of the time when, and 

 the object for which, every special meeting is to be holden, 

 shall be given to every Fellow living within the limits of the 

 metropolitan post delivery. 



Art. III. No other business than that of which notice has 

 been given in the summons for convening the meeting shall be 

 entered upon or discussed at such meeting. 



Art. IV. A special general meeting shall be convened 

 within a reasonable time after a requisition to that effect, spe- 

 cifying the business for which the meeting is to be convened, 

 and signed by the chairman of the Council on the part of the 

 Council, or by any five or more Fellows, shall have been de- 

 livered, addressed to the Secretary at the house of the Society. 

 Provided that no special general meeting shall be held during 

 the recess of Parliament, miless at the desire of the Council. 



Art. V. In case of the death or resignation of any of the 

 officers of the Society, or of any other member of the Council, 

 in the interval between any two successive anniversary meetings, 

 a special general meeting shall be held within two months next 

 after such death or resignation, or as near thereto as con- 

 veniently may be, for the purpose of filling up the vacancy : 

 apd the summons for such meeting and the proceedings thereat 



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