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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. 
Cuarter 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 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 alist 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 
