Natural History and Antiqttarian Society. 5 



5. The Office-bearers of the Society, who shall be Ordinary 

 Members, shall consist of a President, three Vice-presidents, two 

 Secretaries and a Treasurer, holding office for one year only, but 

 being eligible for re-election without any intermission ; and a Com- 

 mittee of Ten Members, the three Members of the Committee 

 standing at the top of the list going out annually, and not being 

 eligible for re-election without the intermission of one year. 



6. The Ordinary Meetings of the Society shall be held on the 

 first Tuesday of each month, for the purposes of the Society, and 

 at the Meeting on the first Tuesday of November of each year, the 

 Office-Bearers for the following year shall be chosen by a majority 

 of votes of the Members present. 



7. Field-Meetings shall be held during the Summer months 

 on the first Tuesday of each month, the arrangements for which 

 shall be made by the Committee. 



8. Each Member may introduce a friend to any Ordinary or 

 Field-Meeting of the Society, such friends not to be admitted more 

 than twice during the same year. 



9. The Committee, of which three shall form a quorum, shall 

 elect their Chairman, and shall have the management of the affairs 

 of the Society, subject to the supervision of Ordinary Meetings. 



10. One of the Secretaries shall keep a Minute-Book of the 

 proceedings of the Society, and a register of the Members, Ordi- 

 nary, Honorary and Corresponding, and shall read a Report of the 

 Society's proceedings at the end of each Session. 



1 1 . The Treasurer shall collect and take charge of the annual 

 subscriptions and funds of the Society, and make payments there- 

 from under direction of the Committee, and shall annually submit 

 to the Committee an account of his intromissions ; and the Com- 

 mittee shaU audit the same, and report to the Annual Meeting on 

 the fijst Tuesday of November. 



12. Alterations or repeals of the foregoing Eules, and new or 

 additional Eules, shall only be made by three-fourths of the Ordi- 

 nary Members at any Meeting of the Society, of which notice shall 

 have been given at the previous Monthly Meeting. 



13. The Ordinary Committee shall have power to call Special 

 Meetings of the Society. 



Mrs. Adamson, Irish Street ; Mr. Aitken, Painter ; Mr. W. 

 Scott, Castle Street ; Mr. Crombie, Architect, all of Dumfries ; 



