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7. No Member of the Society having any contract with the 

 Society or Council for which payment is to be made shall be 

 eligible to a seat in the Council in any capacity ; and if the 

 name of any Member of the Society having a contract with the 

 Society, or receiving any fee or emolument from the Society, 

 shall be found in the ballot, that name shall be set aside by the 

 Chairman, notwithstanding any number of votes that may be 

 appended to it ; and if any Member or Officer of the Council 

 enter into any contract with the Society, or receive from it any 

 fee, payment, or emolument, his seat shall become, ipso facto, 

 vacant in the Council, and the Council shall immediately sum- 

 mon a Meeting of the Society, to elect a Member to the vacant 

 place. 



Chapter VI.— THE ANNUAL MEETING. 



The Annual Meeting shall be held on the second Tuesday of 

 May in each year, for the purpose of electing the Council and 

 Officers for the ensuing year, and of hearing the Report of the 

 Council read, and auditing the accounts. 



Election of Officers. 



1. The Council for the time being shall annually cause to be 

 prepared a list of persons whom they recommend to be Officers 

 and Council for the ensuing year. 



2. The list shall distinguish the three or more Members pro- 

 posed to be removed, and the three or more proposed to be 

 elected in their room, and it shall be transmitted to each Mem- 

 ber residing in Dublin, by post, along with a notice of the time 

 and place of the General Meeting, to be sent at least seven days 

 before the day of Meeting. 



3. The chair shall be taken at four o'clock, when the ballot 

 shall commence, and continue open for one hour, at the expira- 

 tion of which time the Chairman shall proclaim that the time 

 had arrived when the ballot should close, and order the porter 

 not to admit any other Members into the room, and then the 

 Chairman shall call on the Members in the room, who have not 



