Xiv CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS. 
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 President, 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 1st, 1907. The Presi- 
dent 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 rg11 and 1912 are regarded as having expired on December 31st, 1911. Those 
terms which, under the same conditions, should have expired in 1913 and 1914 are re- 
garded as having expired on December 31st, 1912; those which should have expired in 
tg1s and 1916 are regarded as having expired on December 31st, 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. 
s. (1) The term of office of the Members and Associate Members of Council shall 
be three years. Prior to August 1st 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 Mem- 
ber 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 desires, nominate one additional candidate for Associate Member of Council. 
No nominations received by the Secretary after August 31st shall be considered. 
(2) Prior to September 1st of each year the President shall appoint a nominating 
committee 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 Member of Council. The-names listed on the ballot, other than those of re- 
tiring 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 
