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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 

 summon 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 in 

 January in each year, for the purpose of electing the Council 

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

 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 

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

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

 Member residing in Dublin, by post, along with the 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 balloted, to come forward and ballot, and the scrutiny shall 

 forthwith take place ; and those persons to whose names the 



