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be appointed by the Commissioners,) the Expenses Committee Annml 

 aforesaid for the year ensuing ; and in case of the death or inca- ^°^^^^^'_ 

 pacity from any cause whatever of any of the Members of the ^^^^^ ^f 

 Council, or of "the President, Treasurer, or Secretary for the Council i 

 time being, or of any of " the Society's " Committee-men afore- ^^^^^^ 

 said, either before the first of the annual meetings aforesaid or 

 between any two of such annual meetings, the said Council shall 

 and may nominate or appoint some other discreet person or 

 persons, being a Fellow or Fellows of " the Society," to supply 

 the place or places of the Member or Members of Council and 

 of the President, Treasurer, and Secretary respectively, and 

 of the Committee-man or Committee-men respectively, or any 

 or either of them respectively, so dying or becoming incapable, 

 until the annual meeting next following such nomination or 

 appointment ; and such Member or Members of Council, Presi- 

 dent, Treasurer, and Secretary, and Committee-men or Com- 

 mittee-man respectively so nominated or appointed as aforesaid, 

 shall until and on such next annual meeting be deemed to stand 

 respectively for all purposes in the place of the person or 

 persons respectively, or officers respectively, m or to whose 

 place thev respectively shall have been so nominated or appointed 

 or should have succeeded ; and further, as regards any Member 

 or Members of Council dying or becoming incapable before the 

 first annual meeting aforesaid, or in the interval between any two 

 such annual meetings as aforesaid, and whose place or places 

 shall not be supplied by the said Council as aforesaid, the place 

 or places of such Member or Members of Council shall at the 

 first or next annual meeting after the vacancy be supplied from 

 the Fellows of "the Society." by ballot as aforesaid, and m sucl^ 

 case the number of Fellows to be balloted out at such meeting 

 shall be proportionably reduced, it being Our will and plet 

 that the vacancy or vacancies by reason of death or mcap. 

 not supplied by the Council, and actually existing at the tm 

 of anv^nual meeting, shall be treated and supplied as and ] 

 lieu of a vacancy by ballot. And it is also Our will and p easui 

 that any such annual meeting as aforesaid may accept tlie r 

 signation of, or for incapacity remove, any one or more oi tl 

 Members of the Council for the time being, and elect m mann^ 

 aforesaid any person or persons from among theJ^eilows m 

 place or places of the Members so retiring or being remove 

 in addition to the Member or Members which the ielo. 

 present at such meeting are hereinbefore authorised to ele. 



incapacity, 



