ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 527 



15. And We do further declare and grant that the Council for TheCpun- 

 the time being of •' the Society," or any five or more of them (all ^il emppw- 

 the members thereof having been first duly summoned to attend ^ake^bjG- 

 the meetings thereof), shall and may have power, according to the lavs, 

 best of their judgment and discretion, to make and establish such 

 byelaws as they shall deem useful and necessary for the regulation 



of " the Society," and of the estate, goods, and business thereof, 

 and for carrying into efiect, on behalf of " the Society," the said 

 arrangement between the Commissionei'S and the first-mentioned 

 Society, and the said several Articles of Agreement, and the 

 affairs in general of " the Society," and all matters or things in 

 anywise relating thereto, and such byelaws from time to time to 

 vary, alter, or revoke and make such new and other byelaws as 

 they shall think most useful, and expedient, so that the same 

 be not repugnant to these presents or the laws of this Our realm. 

 And further that the present existing byelaws of the said Society 

 shall continue in force in their integrity, and shall be binding 

 upon the Society hereby incorporated and the Members thereof, 

 except and in so far as they shall be repealed or altered by any 

 byelaw hereafter to be made by "the Society." 



1 6. Provided that no byelaw hereafter to be made or alteration Byelaws to 

 or repeal of any byelaw which shall hereafter have been established ^ confirm- 

 by the said Council hereby appointed, or by the Council for the Qeneral 

 time being of "the Society," shall be considered to have passed Meeting of 

 and be binding on " the Society " until such byelaw, or such Fellows, 

 alteration or repeal of any byelaw, shall have been adopted or 

 confirmed at some general meeting of the Fellows at large of 



" the Society," either with or subject to any additions or amend- 

 ments to or in the same which shall be resolved upon or adopted Amend- 

 by such meeting (it being competent for any Fellow present at ™g®^^^™'*^ 

 such meeting to propose or move any such addition or amend- ^^ ^j^^ 

 ment) or in its integrity. The votes upon such byelaws or any meeting 

 of them or the alteration or repeal in or of any such byelaws or ^^ byelaws 

 byelaw, or upon any motion or resolution relating thereto, to be ^ ^^^^ 

 by open voting, unless any five Fellows present shall object to Council. 

 open voting, and shall require, by notice in writing to that effect 

 signed by them and delivered to the chairman, the voting to be Noting 

 by ballot. In the case of open voting, the majority shall bind ^JJ^ ^^ ^^ 

 the minority, the Chairman may vote, and in case of equaUty may ballot, if 

 give a second or casting vote ; and provided that in the case of a "^^^^^ 

 ballot (but not in the case of open voting) no byelaw or alteration pguJ^g 

 or repeal of any byelaw, shall be deemed or taken to pass in the present. 



