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shall, if tliey correspond in lumilx'r, proceed to examine the voting lists 

 and report to the Pi'esident tlio names of those having a majority of 

 votes for composing the Officers and Council of the Society, and these 

 names shall then be announced from the chair. 



" {d) In the case of the number of certificates being different from 

 that of the voting papers, the election shall be null and void and a fresh 

 election shall immediately be held. 



" (e) If any list contain more than the proper number of names, or 

 include the name of a candidate who is not eligible, it shall be void for 

 uncertainty, and shall not be regarded by the scrutineers. 



" (/) If there be an equal number of votes for any two or more 

 candidates, the scrutineers shall announce the fact, and shall proceed to 

 decide by lot Avhich candidate shall have the preference. 



" (jf) No person who has held office during the preceding year shall 

 be thereby disqualified for re-election : provided always that no person 

 shall hold the office of President for more than two consecutive years, 

 and that of the members of the Council, not being the President, a 

 Vice-President, Treasurer or Secretary, the two who have served longest 

 on the Council without interruptions, provided they have so served at 

 least four consecutive years, shall not be eligible, until after the lapse of 

 one year, as members of the Council otherwise than as President, 

 Vice-President, Treasurer or Secretary." 



Reason for Change. The proposed change is in accordance with the 

 actual practice of the Society, except in the omission of signature on 

 the voting lists themselves and its replacement by a separate certificate 

 of voting. This preserves the anonymity of the vote implied by the use 

 of the word ballot in the present rule. Clauses (e), (/), {g) are clauses 

 (e), (/), (gr), of the present Rule 58. They are more appropriately 

 placed here than in Rule 58 which pi'escribes the procedure at the 

 Annual Meeting. 



Rule 45. At such elections it shall he competent for any Ordinary 

 Member of the Society to vote for members other than those recommended 

 by the Council. 



This rule being embodied in the new Rule 44, may bo cancelled. 



Rules 46 and 47 will then become 45 and 46. 



Rule 47. (Neiv Rule 46). If for any reason a President, Vice- 

 Presidents and Members of Council should not be appointed for the 

 ensuing year on the first Wednesday in February, the President, Vice- 

 Presidents and Members of the Council elected during the previous year 

 shall continae to hold office until their successors shall be duly elected. 



