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of Names, or if any List for Officers should include the Name of 

 any Person not being a Member of the Council, such List shall 

 be set aside, and not taken any account of by the Scrutineers in 

 casting up the Number of Votes. 



IX. In case of an Equality of Votes for the Removal from the 

 Council, or for the Election of Two or more Persons, whose 

 Number together shall exceed the Number to be removed or 

 elected exclusive of those having a Majority of Votes, the Excess 

 of such Number shall be secluded by Lots, to be prepared by 

 the Scrutineers and drawn by the President or Vice-President in 

 the Chair ; and the Person or Persons whose Name or Names 

 shall remain undrawn shall be declared to be removed from or 

 elected into the Council, or elected to any of the Offices, as the 

 Case may be. 



X. If Twenty-one Fellows at least do not appear and give in 

 their Balloting-Lists during the Time limited for keeping the 

 Ballot for the Council open, or if any Question should arise in 

 the course of an Election, respecting the Forms thereof, and 

 cannot be decided by the Fellows present, the Election shall be 

 adjourned to the next convenient Day, of which Notice by 

 Letter shall be given to all the Fellows of the Society, in the 

 same Manner as is directed in the First Section of this Chapter. 



XI. In case of a Vacancy in the Council, or among the Officers 

 of the Society, happening during the Intervals of the Anniversary 

 Elections, the Council shall appoint a Special General Meeting, 

 for the Purpose of filling up such Vacancy ; and the Summons 

 for such Meeting, and the Proceedings at it, shall, as far as Cir- 

 cumstances will admit, be after the same Manner as is directed 

 for the Anniversary Elections. 



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