XVII. An Extraordinary General Meeting of the Society 

 may be called at any time, upon ten days' notice, by authority 

 of the Council, on the requisition of Forty Members of the 

 Society, who shall state precisely the objects for which they 

 wish such Meeting to be summoned. The Special Business to 

 be brought up shall be stated in the billet calling the Meeting, 

 and it shall not be competent to introduce or discuss any 

 other subject or business at such Meeting. Such Special 

 Business shall not be considered as approved by the 

 Society until the same shall have been confirmed by a 

 two-thirds majority of the Members present and voting at 

 the next Annual Business or General Meeting. 



XVIII. The Council shall have the right at any time to 

 claim a vote of the entire Membership of the Society on any 

 subject brought before any Meeting of the Society. 



XIX. At Meetings of the Society, no Motion or Proposal 

 (except of mere form or courtesy) shall be entertained 

 for immediate consideration, unless notice thereof has been 

 given fourteen days previously to the Council ; without 

 prejudice, however, to the competency of proposing to 

 remit such Motion or Proposal to the Council for considera- 

 tion, with a view to its being disposed of at a future Meeting. 



XX. The Council may appoint Correspondents residing 

 abroad, and Local Secretaries in suitable home districts, but 

 such appointments must be confirmed at the first General 

 Meeting of the Society held thereafter. These appointments 

 shall not confer a right to vote at any Meeting of the Society 

 or Council. 



XXI. Any proposal or motion for the alteration or amend- 

 ment of the existing Fundamental Laws, or for the enactment 

 of new Laws, shall be intimated in writing at the Annual 

 Business Meeting, or at the General Meeting, but shall lie 

 over for discussion till the next Meeting, which may be 

 held not less than three months after such notice has been 

 given as aforesaid. It shall then be decided on by a 



