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to visit and examine places of interest, and otherwise carry out 
the aims of the Society. Arrangements for these Meetings shall 
as far as possible be made at the April Meeting. 
8. The Annuat MeeEt1N« shall be held on the First Fripay 
of OctoBER, at which the Office-Bearers and other Members of 
Council shall be elected, Reports (general and financial) sub- 
mitted, and other business transacted. 
9. A Member may introduce a friend to any Meeting of the 
Society—such friend not to be admitted more than twice during 
the Session. 
10. The Secretary shall keep a Minute Book of the Society’s 
Proceedings, and a Register of Members, and shall give in a 
Report at the Annual Meeting. 
11. The Treasurer shall collect the subscriptions, take charge 
of the funds, and make payments therefrom under the direction 
of the Council, to whom he shall present an Annual Account, to 
be audited for submission at the Annual Meeting. 
12. The Secretary shall at any time call a Special Meeting of 
the Society on receiving the instructions of the Council, or a 
requisition signed by Six Members. 
13. The Society shall have the right to publish in whole or in 
part any paper read before it. 
14, Members whose subscriptions are in arrears for nine 
months, and have received notice from the Treasurer, cease to be 
Members unless satisfactory reasons for non-payment be given to 
the Council. 
15. Alterations of any Rule, or the addition of New Rules, 
shall only be made with the consent of three-fourths of the Mem. 
bers present at any meeting, notice of the same having been given 
at the previous Monthly Meeting. 
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