152 The Collie or Sheep Dog. 



honorary president and honorary members without entrance fee or 

 subscription, to consider and vote upon any report of the com- 

 mittee, and any resolution of which notice shall have been given 

 to the members at least 14 days before the meeting. The com- 

 mittee shall be bound to give effect to any resolution which shall 

 be adopted by a majority of the members present and voting. 



12. At every general meeting the president of the club shall be 

 chairman, or failing him a member of the committee, chosen by 

 themselves ; or, if there be no member of committee willing to 

 take the chair, a chairman shall be elected by the majority of the 

 members present. 



13. The voting at all general meetings shall, except with the 

 unanimous sanction of the meeting, be by show of hands and the 

 chairman shall have a casting vote. 



14. Committee. At the first general meeting of the club, which 

 shall be held in every year, one-fourth of the members of com- 

 mittee, or if their number be not a multiple of four, then the 

 number nearest to one-fourth shall retire, and their places shall 

 be filled up by the election of members of the club thereto. 



15. The members of committee to retire in every year shall 

 be those who have served longest on the committee, or in case of 

 equal seniority they shall (in default of agreement among them- 

 selves), be selected by ballot. The retiring members shall be 

 eligible for re-election at the election next succeeding to their 

 retirement. 



1 6. The committee may appoint sub-committees for any special 

 purposes and may delegate to them such of the powers of the 

 committee as they think fit. 



17. The committee may make such regulations and bye-laws 

 as they shall think fit for the conduct of the club or any of its 

 prize meetings, shows or field trials, or otherwise in relation to the 

 objects and purposes 01 the club, provided that no alteration may 

 be made in these rules without the sanction of a general meeting. 



1 8. Any member of the committee may at any time summon a 

 meeting of the committee. 



19. The memt/ers of the club may at any general meeting, by a 

 resolution of which due notice shall have been given, and which 

 shall be carried by a majority of not less than three-fourths of the 



