382 The Canary Book. 



be expelled the society without further consideration, and any member who has 

 been so expelled shall not be eligible for re-election. 



24. The decisions of the judges shall be final, except in cases where a bird is 

 found deficient in plumage or has been tampered with. All such cases shall be 

 decided by the committee. 



25. No joint partners will be allowed to become members as such ; but where 

 two persons have joined together to breed and exhibit birds, they must divide their 

 stock equally, and enter as if they were separate fanciers. 



26. The secretary will be authorised to order a sufficient number of prize cards, 

 which will be affixed to the cages of the winning birds ; but no commendation cards 

 will be printed at the expense of the society. 



27. The amount of prize money and number of prizes shall be arranged by the 

 committee of management, due regard being had to the expenses incurred by the 

 society, such expenses to be paid before the distribution of the prize money; 

 and should any deficiency appear, it will be deducted from each successful com- 

 petitor in a proportionate degree, according to the amount of prize money he 

 has won. 



28. It shall be competent for the committee, with not less than a quorum of its 

 members present, to frame any bye-law to meet a case of emergency ; and, further, 

 the president shall, at any meeting of the society where an equal division of 

 members has taken place in regard to any motion, be allowed to give a casting 

 vote in addition to his own vote as a member of the society. 



29. It shall be competent for any member, being an office bearer, to resign his 

 office at any time by giving his written resignation to the secretary, and the 

 members of the society, at the following meeting, shall proceed to appoint a sub- 

 stitute in his stead. 



30. Any member who shall conduct himself in an unbecoming manner during 

 any of the society's meetings, or who shall use intemperate and improper Linguage 

 to a brother member, or to any office bearer, judge, or other person, during tbe 

 exhibition, or who shall smoke or annoy any member or other person visiting the 

 exhibition, shall be fined a sum not exceeding two shillings and sixpence, and 

 may be suspended from membership or expelled the society at the discretion of 

 the committee. 



31. That the exhibition shall be held for one or two days, as may be decided b.r 

 a majority of the members of the society, and that the public be admitted oi> 

 payment of a charge for admission to be fixed by the committee of management, 

 the proceeds to be applied towards the liquidation of the society's expenses. 



32. That it shall be competent for any member of this society to report to thf 

 secretary any case of supposed fraud, in bird transactions or otherwise, perpetrated 

 by any of its members ; and the secretary, on receipt of such complaint, shall call 

 a meeting of the committee of management, who shall, if they deem fit, depute 

 one or more members to investigate the charges and report the result. If there 

 appear any just ground for the complaint, then the person so accused shall be 

 called upon for an explanation, and if it prove unsatisfactory the committee shall 

 have power to suspend or expel him, as they shall think proper ; but if, on the 

 contrary, the complaint should prove frivolous, then the member making sucb 

 complaint shall be fined the sum of two and sixpence, and receive a public censur* 

 at the next meeting of the society. 



33. This society shall not be dissolved so long as six members can be found who 



