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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 the 

 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 

 Committee 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 for 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 in 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 ofthe 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 

 Excursions to every Member, stating the time and place thereof. 



LOCAL AND DISTRICT MEETINGS. 



17. — To promote still further the objects and interests ofthe 

 Society, Local Secretaries and Members are invited to organize 

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

 same to the General and all the Local Secretaries, stating the time 



