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contain the names of Members whom they shall recommend to be 

 re-elected, and of other Members to be elected into the Council ; and 

 the other List (No. 2) shall contain the names of such persons as they 

 shall recommend to fill the offices of President, Treasurer, Secretaries, 

 and Librarian for the year ensuing ; which Lists shall be read at the 

 Ordinary Meeting in December, and shall then be fixed up in the room 

 until the clay of election. And copies of such Lists shall be transmitted 

 to every Member whose last known residence shall be in the United 

 Kingdom, before the 20th December. 



4. If any four or more Members shall desire to substitute the name 

 or names of any other Member or Members to be elected into the 

 Council or to fill any of the offices of President, Treasurer, Secretary, 

 or Librarian, such four or more Members shall give notice in writing 

 to that effect, specifying the name or names of the Member or 

 Members proposed to be substituted ; such notice to be given on or 

 before the 31st December to one of the Secretaries, who shall before 

 the second Wednesday in January transmit a List of the names 

 proposed to be substituted to every Member whose last known residence 

 shall be in the United Kingdom. 



5. If no such notice be given to either of the Secretaries on or 

 before the 31st December, the Members named in the Lists prepared 

 by the Council shall be the Council and Officers for the ensuing year. 



6. If any such notice be given, the election shall be by Ballot at 

 the Annual Meeting, and the President shall appoint two or more 

 Scrutineers from the Members present, not being Members of the 

 Council, to superintend the ballots and report the results to the 

 Meeting. The Secretaries, assisted by the Treasurer, shall prepare a 

 List of the Members entitled to vote, and each Member voting shall 

 give his name to the Scrutineers to be marked on the said List, and 

 shall then put his balloting lists into the respective glasses to be 

 provided for such occasion. 



7. Any balloting List containing a greater number of names 

 proposed for any office than the number to be elected to such office, 

 shall be wholly void, and be rejected by the Scrutineers. 



8. No Ballot shall be taken unless nine or more Members shall be 

 present. 



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

 fill the Council, or any of the offices aforesaid, then the election of the 

 Council and Officers, or the election of Officers, as the case may be, 

 shall be adjourned until the next convenient day, of which notice shall 

 be given in like manner as is directed for the Annual Meeting. 



