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Chap. XX. Annual General Meeting. 



1. The Annual General Meeting of the Members shall be held 

 in the Meeting-room on the fourth Monday in January of every 

 year. 



2. The objects of the Meeting shall be to choose the Council and 

 Officers for the then ensuing year ; and to receive from the Council, 

 and hear read, their Annual Report on the general concerns of the 

 Society. 



3. The Council for the time being shall annually cause to be 

 prepared two written Lists, one of which (No. 1 in the Schedule 

 hereto) shall contain the names of four Members, whom they shall 

 recommend to be removed from, and of four other Members to be 

 elected into the Council ; and the other List (No. 2) shall contain 

 the names of such Members as they shall recommend to fill the 

 offices of President, Treasurer and Secretaries, for the year en- 

 suing ; which Lists shall be read at the Monthly Meeting in January 

 in every year, and shall then be fixed up in the Meeting-room until 

 the day of election. And copies of such Lists shall be transmitted 

 to every Member whose known residence shall be in London, or 

 within twenty miles thereof, at least seven days before the Annual 

 General Meeting shall take place. 



4. On the day of voting, each Member present shall put his 

 balloting Lists into the respective Glasses to be provided for such 

 occasion ; before doing which, however, in case any name or names 

 shall have been added to the Lists proposed by the Council, he shall 

 strike out the name or names of those persons recommended for 

 whom he does not vote. And if more names shall be suffered to 

 remain in any List than the number of persons to be elected or 

 removed, such Lists shall be rejected. And in case the names 

 suffered to remain shall be less than the number of vacancies to be 

 supplied, those names only which shall remain in the List shall 

 stand as voted for. 



5. The President shall appoint two or more Scrutineers from the 

 Members present,, not being Members of the Council, to superin- 

 tend the Ballots and report the results to the Meeting. 



6. The Ballot for the Council shall remain open for one quarter 

 of an hour, at the least ; and the Ballot for the Officers for one 

 quarter of an hour, at the least, after the result of the Ballot for 

 the Council shall have been declared. 



7. If from any cause an election shall not take place of persons 



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