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the current year, receiving the Annual Statement of Accounts, and Report 

 of the Committee, and conducting the general affairs of the Society. 



9. Special General Meetings may be summoned by the Committee, or 

 by the Secretary, on the requisition (in writing) of any six Members of 

 the Society, the specific purposes of the Meeting being stated in the 

 notice, which shall be sent to each member not less than one week before 

 the time of such Meeting. 



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

 majority of votes ; and if upon any question the votes shaU 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 Com- 

 mittee, between the Annual Meetings, the same shall be filled up by the 

 Committee. 



12. In order to facilitate the objects of the Society, the Committee 

 shall be empowered to appoint any Member Local Secretary for the town 

 or district he may reside in. Such Local Secretary shall be ex-officio a 

 Member of the Committee. 



SCIEXTIFIC MEETINGS AND EXCURSIONS. 



13. Two Meetings shall be held in Canterbury yearly, on the last 

 Thursdays in February and November, for the purpose of readmg Papers, 

 exhibiting Specimens, Lectures, &c. Each Member to have the right of 

 introducing a Visitor at these Meetings. 



14. Two Excursions arc appointed to take place yearly, on the last 

 Thursdays in May and August, for the purpose of investigating the 

 natural objects of interest in some district in East Kent ; the arrangements 

 for these Excursions to be made at the Annual Meeting. 



15. A Minute of the Proceedings of all Meetings shall be entered by 

 the Secretaiy in a Book kept for that purpose. 



