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V. Three Judges shall be elected at the Annual General 

 Meeting, who shall adjudicate upon the Essays and Eeports, and 

 other matters offered in competition, and who shall be eligible for 

 re-election. There shall also be elected a Publishing Committee, 

 consisting of at least four Members, and of whom the Secretary 

 shall be a Member ex officio, and shall superintend the arrangement 

 and passing through the press of the Society's Transactions. There 

 may be also elected annually a suitable person to act as Photo- 

 graphic Artist to the Society. 



VI. The Judges of essays and subjects proposed for competition 

 are, during their term of office, debarred from competition. 



VII. Intimation of all papers intended to be brought before the 

 Meetings of the Society must be given to the Secretary, and sub- 

 mitted to the Council, at least ten days previous to the Meeting at 

 which they are to be read. 



VIII. Any Member may transmit to the Secretary papers and 

 communications, which, if approved of by the Council, may be read 

 by the author, or, in his absence, by the President or Secretary, at 

 any Ordinary Meeting of the Society. 



IX. Any Member who may be awarded a Medal or Premium 

 by the Society shall have it in his option to receive the value in 

 money or plate; and in the event of his selecting any other article 

 than a Medal, it shall be competent for him to adopt and use upon 

 it the inscription which would have been engraved on the Medal. 



X. The converted values of the Society's Premiums shall be : Gold 

 Medal, Five Pounds ; No. 1 Silver Medal, Three Pounds, or No. 2 

 Silver Medal and Two Pounds ; No. 2 Silver Medal, Two Pounds ; 

 Bronze Medal, Ten Shillings. 



XL Local Secretaries in suitable districts may be from time to 

 time appointed by the Council, but such nominations must be con- 

 firmed at the first General Meeting of the Society held thereafter. 

 These appointments shall not confer on the parties receiving them 

 any right to vote in the administration of the Society by its Council, 

 but they shall act in the interests of the Society in the respective 

 districts assigned to them, in securing new Members, and in fur- 

 nishing information regarding the Society to the Members in their 

 districts ; and, for that purpose, they shall correspond with the 

 General Secretary in Edinburgh, or with the Treasurer, in regard 

 to parties in arrears, whose address has been changed or cannot be 

 traced. The Local Secretaries shall not be called on to collect 

 the Subscriptions of Members either in arrear or otherwise. 



XII. It shall be in the power of any General Meeting of the 



