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in every subsequent year, all the members of the council 

 for the time then being shall retire from office, and the 

 general meeting shall or may elect to fill their respective 

 places an equal number of qualified ordinary members. 



67. Every retiring member of the council, if otherwise 

 qualified, shall be eligible for re-election, but no person 

 shall be eligible to the office of President for more than 

 two consecutive years at any one time. 



68. Every election of an officer of the Society or a 

 member of the council shall be by ballot and in no other 

 mode. 



69. Every member of the council shall vacate his office 

 upon his ceasing to be an ordinary member, or being found 

 lunatic, or if he shall absent himself from the council for 

 six months without the sanction of the council, but until 

 an entry of his disqualification is made in the minutes of 

 the council his acts in his official capacity shall be as 

 effectual as if he had not been disqualified. 



70. Any occasional vacancy in the office of any member 

 of the council may be filled up by an extraordinary 

 general meeting by the election of a duly qualified ordinary 

 member to the vacant office. 



71. Whenever the annual general meeting in any year 

 shall fail to elect members of council in the place of any of 

 the retiring members of council whose places ought, accord- 

 ing to the fixed number of members of council for the time 

 then being, to be filled up at such meeting, then the retiring 

 members of council, or those of them whose places ought 

 to have been, but have not been, filled up, shall (if willing 

 and able to act) continue in their respective offices until 

 some subsequent extraordinary or annual general meeting 

 shall have filled up their places. 



