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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 shall 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 these 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, untess 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 Members in the circular notice 
of such Meeting, at least seven days previous to the day of Meeting. 
Cuaprer VIL—THE GARDENS. 
I. 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. 
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. 
