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3. Election to the Council shall take place at the same Elections, 

 time as that of the Officers of the Association, 



(i) At each Annual Election, the following Ordinary- 

 Members of the Council shall be ineligible for re- 

 election in the ensuing year : 



(a) Three of the Members who have served for the 



longest consecutive period, and 



(b) Two of the Members who, being resident in or near 



London, have attended the least number of meet- 

 ings during the past year. 

 Nevertheless, it shall be competent for the Council, by 

 an unanimous vote, to reverse the proportion in the 

 order of retirement above set forth. 



(ii) The Council shall submit to the General Committee, 

 in their Annual R.eport, the names of twenty-three 

 Members of the Association whom they recommend for 

 election as Members of Council, 

 (iii) Two Members shall be elected by the General Com- 

 mittee, without nomination by the Council ; and this 

 election shall be at the same meeting as that at which the 

 election of the other Members of the Council takes place. 

 Any member of the General Committee may propose 

 another member thereof for election as one of these two 

 members of Council, and, if only two are so proposed, 

 they shall be declared elected ; but, if more than two 

 are so proposed, the election shall be by show of hands, 

 unless five members at least require it to be by ballot. 



Chapter VI. 



The President, General Officers, and Staff. 



1. The President assumes office on the first day of the The Presi- 

 Annual Meeting, when he delivers a Presidential Address. 



He resigns office at the next Annual Meeting, when he 

 inducts his successor into the Chair. 



The President shall preside at all meetings of the Associa- 

 tion or of its Council and Committees which he attends in his 

 capacity as President. In his absence, he shall be represented 

 by a Vice-President or past President of the Association. 



2. The General Officers of the Association are the General General 

 Treasurer and the General Secretaries. Officers. 



