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Jamiary in 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 Com- 

 mittee, or by the Secretary, on the requisition in writing of any 

 sis 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 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 Officers or 

 Committee, between the Annual Meetings, the same shall be filled 

 up by the Committee. 



12. In order to facilitate the objects of the Society, the Com- 

 mittee shall be empowered to appoint any member a Local 

 Secretary for the town or district he may reside in. Such Local 

 Secretajy shall be ex-offido 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, 

 eihibiting Specimens, Lectures, &c. Each member to have the 

 right of introducing a Visitor at these Meetings. 



14. Two Excursions will be appointed to take place yearly, 

 during the Summer, for the purpose of investigating the natural 

 objects of interest in some district in East Kent ; the arrange- 

 ments for these Excm-sions to be made at a Committee Meeting 

 to be held in the first week of each of the Summer Quarters. 



