CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS. Xxi 
3. Prior to the date of the annual meeting of the Society of the year with which the 
term of the President expires, the Council shall nominate a candidate for the office of Presi- 
dent, whose name shall be presented to the Society for election at the annual meeting. Any 
other candidate whose nomination, signed by at least sixty Members and Associates, shall 
have been submitted to the Secretary prior to the annual meeting shall also be presented. 
The candidate receiving the highest number of votes shall be the President for the ensuing 
three years. The first President under this rule was elected at the annual meeting in 1906 
and his term of office began January 1, 1907. The President shall not be eligible for election 
as his own successor. 
4. (1) The term of office of the Vice-Presidents shall be three years. The terms of the 
Vice-Presidents which, under a previous provision of the Constitution, should have expired 
in 1911 and 1912 are regarded as having expired on December 31, 1911. Those terms which, 
under the same conditions, should have expired in 1913 and 1914 are regarded as having 
expired on December 31, 1912; those which should have expired in 1915 and 1916 are re- 
garded as having expired on December 31, 1913. Beginning with the four Vice-Presidents 
elected for the term ending December 31, 1914, there shall be four Vice-Presidents elected 
each year to take the place of those whose terms expire. The Vice-Presidents to fill the 
vacancies occurring each year in any class shall be elected by the Council from their own 
membership. Retiring Vice-Presidents shall be eligible for re-election. 
(2) Honorary Vice-Presidents shall be chosen from the list of Vice-Presidents who 
have had at least ten years’ service as Vice-President. They shall be chosen at the meeting 
of the Council next prior to the annual general meeting of the Society and must be the 
unanimous choice of all members of Council present. Not more than two Vice-Presidents 
may be elected Honorary Vice-Presidents in any one year. 
5. (1) The term of office of the Members and Associate Members of Council shall be 
three years. Prior to August 1 of each year the Secretary shall mail to each Member and 
Associate a list of the names of the Members and Associate Members of Council whose 
terms expire with the current year, and shall enclose a blank on which each Member may, 
if he so desires, nominate one additional candidate for Member of Council and one additional 
candidate for Associate Member of Council; and each Associate Member may, if he so de- 
sires, nominate one additional candidate for Associate Member of Council. No nominations 
received by the Secretary after August 31 shall be considered. 
(2) Prior to September 1 of each year the President shall appoint a nominating com- 
mittee of five, at least three of whom shall be Members. This committee shall scrutinize 
the nomination slips sent in by Members and Associates and prepare a ballot. This ballot 
shall contain the names of all the retiring Members and Associate Members of Council who 
shall not have declined re-election and a sufficient number of additional names to make a 
total of nine candidates for Member of Council and three candidates for Associate Mem- 
ber of Council. The names listed on the ballot, other than those of retiring Members and 
Associate Members of Council, shall be chosen by the nominating committee from those 
who have received the highest number of votes on the nominating lists returned by members 
of the Society. 
(3) Should the number of names which have received at least ten votes in the case of 
nominees for Members of Council and five votes in the case of nominees for Associate 
Members of Council be insufficient to complete the number on the ballot list above provided 
for in sub-paragraph (2), the nominating committee shall add enough names to bring the 
