344 TRANSITION IN AGRICULTURE 



(the notice of which meeting shall explicitly 

 state the business), and shall receive the 

 sanction of two-thirds of the members present 

 and voting ; (2) That any resolution carried by 

 two-thirds of the members present and voting 

 at a general meeting shall be considered an 

 instruction to the Executive Committee. 



RULES. 



1. The Club shall consist of an unlimited number of members, 

 and any person may become a member, if satisfactory to the Com- 

 mittee, on paying an entrance fee of 3d. 



2. Each member's subscription shall not be less than 2d. per 

 week to the Capital Fund, and id. every fourth week to the Working 

 Expenses Fund. 



3. The Capital Fund shall not under any circumstances be 

 touched for working expenses, nor for any other purposes except 

 those stated in these rules. 



4. The Working Expenses Fund shall be kept entirely separate 

 from the Capital Fund, and shall be vested in the hands of the 

 Treasurer. It shall consist of all payments other than payments to 

 the Capital Fund. 



5. Any member allowing his arrears on 2d. a week to exceed 

 eight weeks' subscriptions shall be fined a halfpenny per week from 

 the first week until the arrears and fines be paid up ; and if six 

 months in arrears, after having received due notice of the same 

 from the Secretary, and after failing to give a satisfactory reason to 

 the Committee for falling back in his payment, he may be excluded 

 and forfeit all the moneys he has paid into the Club. 



6. Any member may, on removal for more than three miles from 

 the Lodge Room, cease his membership and draw out the whole of 

 his payments to the Capital Fund, less a reduction of 5 per cent., 

 s uch a deduction going to the Working Expenses Fund. 



7. In case of the death of a member the whole of his payments 

 to the Capital Fund standing to his credit at the time of his decease 

 shall be paid over to his widow or next of kin. The widow or next 

 of kin may, if she or he desire, take over the membership of the 

 deceased. 



8. In the event of the direct hiring of land by the Club the 



