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general meeting, and only ordinary members shall vote at 

 or take part in the proceedings of general meetings. 



58. Every ordinary member present in person at 

 any general meeting shall have one and only one vote 

 upon each question arising at such meeting. But no 

 ordinary member shall vote or exercise any privilege of an 

 ordinary member at any general meeting while any 

 admission fee or subscription or any part thereof due from 

 him shall be unpaid. 



59. Except with reference to the election of members, 

 the person in the chair at a general meeting in every case 

 in which on any question arising at such meeting there 

 shall be for and against such question an equality of 

 votes, shall have an additional or casting vote. 



60. No objection shall be made to the validity of any 

 vote, except at the meeting at which such vote shall be 

 tendered, and every vote not disallowed at such meeting 

 shall be deemed valid for all purposes whatsoever. 



6 1. The Chairman of any general meeting shall be the 

 sole and absolute judge of the validity of every vote 

 tendered at such meeting, and may allow or disallow the 

 votes tendered accordingly as he shall be of opinion that 

 the same are or are not valid. 



62. A statutory declaration by the Secretary, to the 

 effect that notice of any general meeting has been given in 

 the manner specified by these presents to each of the ordinary 

 members having registered places of address in the United 

 Kingdom, shall in the absence of proof to the contrary be con- 

 clusive evidence of notice of such meeting having been given 

 to each such ordinary member, and the proceedings of any 

 general meeting shall not be invalidated by reason of no such 

 notice thereof having been given to one-tenth or less in 



