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3. The Chair shall be taken at four o’clock, when the ballot shall 
commence and continue open for one hour, at the expiration 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 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 Mecting; 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 Members in the circular notice of such Meeting, 
at least seven days previous to the day of Meeting. 
CuarTer 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 Subscriber, 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. 
