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24. The two retiring Members shall not be eligible for re- 
election until the next Annual Meeting. 
25. The Council shall also select from the Past-Presidents of 
the Society not less than three nor more than nine to be Vice- 
Presidents of the Society for the ensuing year. 
26. The Chairman of every duly authorised Section shall be 
ex-officio a member of the Council. 
27. The same person cannot hold office as President of the 
Society for more than two years in succession. 
28. The President shall not, during his term of office, hold 
the office of Chairman or Secretary of any Section. 
29. With the notice summoning the Annual General Meeting, 
a list of all the Officers and other Members of the Council so 
nominated as aforesaid shall be sent to every ordinary Member, 
and such notice of the Annual Meeting shall be posted at least 
eight days before the day for which it is summoned. 
30. Any Member wishing to propose at the Annual Meeting 
any alteration in the list of Officers and Members nominated by 
the Council, or to make any other proposal, may do so by giving 
at least four clear days’ notice to one of the Secretaries of his 
intention to do so, and stating in such notice the alteration or 
proposal he intends to make. Unless such a notice is given no 
amendment in such list nor any proposal shall be received. 
31. The election of Officers and Members of the Council 
shall be by show of hands, unless the Meeting shall otherwise 
determine. 
32. Should any Members of the Council, elected under Rule 
23, fail to attend the Meetings of the Council for twelve months, 
without assigning sufficient reason for their absence, they shall 
ipso facto be held to have resigned their seats on the Council, and 
the Council at its next meeting may proceed to the election of 
another Member or Members to supply their place. ; 
33. The President and Office-bearers of the Society, elected at 
the Annual General Meeting in June, shall enter on their duties 
at the Opening Meeting of the Session in October. 
Committees and Sections. 
34. The Council may appoint Committees for the Manage- 
ment of any particular business or may institute Sections for the 
encouragement and prosecution of any particular study. 
35. A Section thus appointed may have an organisation of its 
own, with Chairman, Committee, and Secretary elected by the 
Members of that Section, in which case the Secretary shall keep 
a minute book of the proceedings of the Section and report to 
the Council from time to time as may be ordered its resolutions 
and proceedings for approval and confirmation. 
36. No appointment of Chairman or Secretary of a Section 
shall be valid without the approval of the Council. 
37- All Committees and Sections shall be constituted for one 
year only, and in the week preceding the Meeting of the 
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