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Tuesday of November in each year for the election of new Members, 

 the appointment of Office-Bearers, awarding of prizes, the reading 

 of papers, discussion on selected subjects, and for the disposal of 

 any other business which can be competently brought before the 

 Meeting. 



XIV. An Extraordinary Meeting of the Society may be called at 

 any time, upon ten days' notice, by authority of the Council, on the 

 requisition of Twelve Members of the Society, who shall state pre- 

 cisely the objects for which they wish such Extraordinary Meeting 

 to be summoned, and the business to be brought up shall be inti- 

 mated to each Member in the billet calling the Meeting, and it shall 

 not be competent to introduce or discuss any other subject or busi- 

 ness at such meeting. 



XV. Any proposal or motion for the alteration or amendment 

 of the existing Fundamental Laws, or the enactment of new ones, 

 shall be intimated in writing to the Annual General Meeting in 

 November, but shall lie over for discussion till the following Annual 

 Meeting, and be then determined by a majority of at least two- 

 thirds of the votes of Life and Ordinary Members present, provided 

 at least thirty Members are present and vote. Such motion shall 

 be printed in the Billet calling the Meeting at which it is to be 

 discussed. 



2. BY-LAWS. 



I. At any Meeting of the Society the Chair shall be taken by the 

 President for the time being, in whose absence the Senior Vice- 

 President present, failing whom the senior Member in the list of the 

 Council shall preside. 



II. The Chairman shall have a deliberative and a casting vote. 



III. The voting, upon all occasions, except as specially provided 

 for in Law XV. and By-Law XI, shall be in the option of the 

 Chairman, either by a show of hands, or, in case of doubt, numera- 

 tim, i.e., the Chairman shall ascertain the majority of the votes of 

 Life and Ordinary Members present at the Meeting. 



IV. In electing Office-Bearers, the Council shall suggest and recom- 

 mend to the General Meeting the names of Members eligible to fill 

 the vacancies. Such names to be intimated to each Member in the 

 Billet calling the Meeting ; and it shall be in the option of any 

 Member present, to propose to substitute any other name or names, 

 in lieu of any of those recommended; and in the event of this 

 being done, and a seconder to the new proposal being found, the 

 vote shall be taken, as between the name or names substituted, and 

 those proposed. 



