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original rule, and, if the majority is m favour of it, it will 

 remain unaltered, but if, on the contrary, the majority is in 

 favour of the amendment, then the rule must be altered 

 accordingly. After the rules have been fully discussed and 

 approved, they should be printed, and each member supplied 

 with a copy on payment of sixpence, to assist in defraying 

 the expense of printing them. 



The following will be found to embrace all that is required 

 in a code of regulations for the purpose of conducting a 

 society of this description in a satisfactory manner : 



RULES AND REGULATIONS. 



Rule 1. That this society shall be called the Ornithological Society. 



2. That it shall consist of a president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer, and 

 a committee, to be chosen by a majority of the members composing the meetings, 

 provided always that they form at least a quorum. The officers so elected to serve 

 twelve calendar months, to be computed from the termination of the society's 

 annual show in each year. 



3. Five members are to constitute a quorum, and the meetings of the society are 

 to take place on the first Thursday in each month at the place appointed, at eight 

 o'clock in the evening, for the transaction of business. 



4. The duties of the president or vice-president shall be to keep order, and to 

 submit any proposition made by any member to the meeting for approval or 

 rejection. No member to be allowed to address the meeting except through the 

 president or vice-president, who shall rule him in or out of order, or whether his 

 question is relevant or not. Any member infringing this rule to be fined sixpence, 

 to go to the funds of the society. The vice-president to act only in the absence of 

 the president. 



5. The secretary must keep a diary or minute book, in which he will be required 

 to record the business transactions of each meeting, and likewise to keep a debtor 

 and creditor account of all receipts and disbursements made on behalf of the 

 society. 



6. The treasurer is to receive all moneys and pay all bills on behalf of the 

 society, and to keep an account of the same, and in conjunction with the secretary 

 to make out an annual balance sheet, to be submitted for the inspection and 

 approval of the committee. 



7. That the committee be empowered to transact the business of the society, 

 and to hold meetings at other times than those specified, when they deem it 

 expedient to do so, and in such cases it will be the duty of the secretary to acquaint 

 each member of the committee, individually, of the day and hour at which such 

 meeting will be held. Any member, being an office bearer, failing to attend 

 either the regular or special meeting without giving a full and satisfactory reason 

 for so doing, to be fined fourpence, the amount to go to the benefit of the society's 

 general fund. 



8. Any person desirous of becoming a member of this society must be proposed 

 by one of its members, and the proposition duly seconded by another ; he wilJ 



