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10. — All questions discussed at the Meetings shall be decided by 

 a majority of votes ; and if upon any question the votes shall be 

 equal, the Chairman of the Meeting shall have the second or casting 

 vote. 



11. — In the event of any vacancy occurring in the Officers or 

 Committee between the Annual Meetings, the same shall be filled up 

 by the Committee. The two Members who have been longest thereon, 

 and have attended the fewest meetings thereof, during the preceding 

 year, shall go out by rotation at the Annual Meeting. 



12. — In order to facilitate the objects of the Society, the Com- 

 mittee shall be empowered to appoint any Member a Local Secretary 

 for the town or district he may reside in. Such Local Secretary shall 

 be ex-officio a Member of the Committee. 



SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS AND EXCURSIONS. 



13. — The Meetings of Scientific Business shall be at Seven o'clock 

 p.m. on the first Wednesday of every month, at Canterbury ; also 

 extra Meetings at such place and time as the Committee shall have 

 posted due notice of in the Society's apartment. Each Member to 

 have the right of introducing a Visitor at these Meetings. 



14. — There shall be ordinary Excursions on the Afternoon of the 

 day of each evening Scientific Meeting, and at other times, if the 

 Committee so appoint, time and place to be duly notified iu the 

 Society's room by the Committee ; and Special Excursions at such 

 times and places as may be approved by the Committee, who shall 

 consider written suggestions of Members on the subject. 



15. — Minutes of the proceedings of all Meetings shall be entered 

 by the Secretary in a book kept for that purpose. 



16. — The Secretary to give seven days' notice of Special Ex- 

 cursions to every member, stating the time and place thereof, &c. 



LOCAL OE DISTRICT MEETINGS. 



IT. — To promote still further the objects and interests of the 

 *Society Local Secretaries and Members are invited to organize Meet- 

 ings or Excursions in their district, and to give notice of the same to 

 the General and all the Local Secretaries, stating the time and place 

 of Meeting, and what particular subjects are to be brought forward. 



COLLECTION OF SPECIMENS. 



18. — The Society, as soon as it may possess sufficient means, shall 



