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ill each year, at Canterbury, for the purpose of electing the Officers for 

 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. AU 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 OflBcers 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-offieio a 

 Member of the Committee. 



SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS AND EXCURSIONS. 



13. Two Meetings shall be held in Canterbury yearly, during the first 

 and last quarters, for the purpose of reading Papers, exhibiting Specimens, 

 Lectures, &c. Each member to have the right of introducing a Visitor at 

 these Meetings. 



14. Two Excursions are appointed to take place yearly, during the 

 Summer, for the purpose of investigating the natural objects of interest i"* 

 Bome difltrict in East Kent ; the arrangements for these Excursions to be 

 made at a Committee Meeting to be held iu the first week of each of the 

 Summer Quarters. 



