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“(c) The candidate receiving the highest number of votes shall be President for the en- 
suing three years. 
“(d) A vacancy in the office of President shall be filled by ballot by the Council from the 
list of Past Presidents, Honorary Vice-Presidents, and Vice-Presidents, until the end of the 
year in which the vacancy occurs, and at the annual general meeting of that year a new Presi- 
dent shall be elected for three years in the manner prescribed in the preceding paragraphs. 
“(e) The President shall not be eligible for election as his own successor.” 
ARTICLE V—Section 4, to read: 
“Honorary Vice-Presidents may be chosen from the list of Vice-Presidents or from the 
list of Council Members who have had at least twelve years’ service. They shall be chosen at 
the meeting of the Council next prior to the annual general meeting of the Society, and shall 
be the unanimous choice of all Council Members present. 
“Not more than two Honorary Vice-Presidents may be elected in any one year. 
“5. The Vice-Presidents to fill the vacancies occurring each year shall be elected by the 
Council from its own membership. Retiring Vice-Presidents shall be eligible for re-election. 
The term of office of the Vice-Presidents shall be three years. 
“6. The Secretary and Treasurer must be a member of the Society and shall be elected 
annually by the Council, but may be removed for cause at any time by a majority vote of 
Council after due notice has been given.” 
THE PRESIDENT :—That last paragraph, gentlemen, is simply a change of phraseology. 
It agrees exactly with the present practice and what has been the practice from the beginning 
of the Society. When the Constitution was first drafted, it was apparently thought there 
might be an arrangement, for example, to have a trust company or bank act as treasurer, 
and it then stipulated that the Secretary must be a Member. The practice of the Society, 
however, in the whole twenty-nine years of its existence, has been to have the same person 
as Secretary and Treasurer to do its work, so we thought it better, when we were revising the 
Constitution, to make the phraseology agree with our practice. 
ARTICLE V—Management to be made “ArticLE VI—Management.” 
ARTICLE VI—Meetings to be made “ArticLteE VIl—WMeetings.” 
ArticLe VIl—Regulations and By-Laws to be made “ArticLe VIII—Regulations and 
By-Laws.” 
ArticLte VIII—Amendments to be made “ArticLE [X—Amendments.” 
THE PRESIDENT:—Has anyone any comment to make on the proposed amendments? 
I want again to call your attention to the fact that the matter has been under consideration 
for a long time. I should say it is some six weeks since the matter was started, and it has 
been given very careful consideration. Mr. Stevenson Taylor, who is now really the dean 
of the profession and a man whom we all love and admire, is the one who started the move- 
ment. This Society is very near and dear to his heart. I do not know of any member whc 
has done more to advance the interests of the Society than Mr. Taylor, or one who would 
hesitate more seriously to take a step which inany sense might imperil those interests. Ten 
or more Members gave their approval to the amendments, and then they came up for consid- 
eration before the Council. There they received the scrutiny of such devoted friends and 
experienced members of the Society as Commodore Baxter, Secretary of the Society for 
many years; Admiral Capps, Secretary of the Society at one time, and afterwards Presi- 
