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greater number of marks shall have been affixed, shall be 
declared duly elected, in the order and places in which they 
stand, provided at least three new Members be elected, but if 
not, then those of the proposed Members who have the least 
number of marks shall be rejected, until at least three former 
Members are excluded, and their places shall be filled by those 
who have the next greatest number of marks. 
4. If two or more names have the same number of marks, 
the order of preference shall be decided by lot. 
General Business. 
1. No motion respecting a change in the laws or constitution 
of the Society shall be discussed or voted upon at the Annual 
or other Meeting, except as hereafter provided, unless notice 
thereof be given in writing to the Council, at least one month 
before such Meeting ; the Council to give seven days’ notice 
to the Members, as before ordered. 
2. But the Council may propose, and bring to the vote, any 
measure or question, at any of the Meetings of the Society, 
provided it shall have been under their consideration for at 
least one month, and that notice thereof be given to the Mem- 
bers in the circular notice of such Meeting, at least seven days 
previous to the day of Meeting. 
Cuarrer VII.—THE GARDENS. 
1. Any person enrolling his name in a book kept at the gate 
of the gardens, and paying One Pound a year, shall be a Sub- 
scriber, and shall have the same privileges of ingress to the 
Gardens as a Member of the Society. 
2. The Council shall have the power of suspending all rights 
of free entrance to the Gardens upon the day of a public fete, 
or similar occasion, when such shall be given for the benefit of 
the Society. . 
3. During frost, the Council shall have power to suspend 
all privileges of Members and Garden Subscribers, except that 
of personal admission. 
4. The Council shall have power from time to time to vary, as 
may seem fit to them, the rates of admission to non-subscribers 
