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 y\ssociates, 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 elec- 

 tion 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 ex- 

 pired on December 31, 1912; those which should have expired in 1915 and 1916 are regarded 

 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 oc- 

 curring 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 



