of Council shall retire annually and shall not be eligible for 

 re-election to their respective offices until the next Annual 

 General Meeting. 



XII. 



That the Members of the Council attending each Meeting 

 of such Council sign their names in a book to be kept for the 

 purpose ; five Members to form a quorum. 



XIII. 



That the Council may be divided into such Committees 

 as its Members find desirable, and may associate Ordinary 

 Members on any such Committee. 



XIV. 



That for the purpose of the legal protection of the property 

 of the Society, all the funds, books, and other property of the 

 Society be declared as vested in three or more Trustees, who 

 shall be Members of the Society, to be appointed by the Council ; 

 but that the Council shall have power, by the vote of a majority 

 of its whole number, to sell or otherwise dispose of any property 

 which it may not seem to them advisable to retain. 



XV. 



That minutes be kept of the meetings of the Society and 

 of the Council, and that the minutes of each Meeting be read 

 as the first business of the ensuing Meeting of the same kind. 



XVI. 



That the Ordinary Meetings of the Society be held on the 

 second Friday in each month (except during the months of 

 July, August, September, and October) at 6 p.m., but that the 

 Council may alter the date of meeting on due notice. 



XVII. 



That the Council may, when they think fit, and they shall, 

 upon a Requisition signed by not less than twelve Members, 

 convene a Special General Meeting of the Society. That one 

 month's notice shall be given from the chair of every Special 

 General Meeting, and the object stated, and a printed notice 

 sent to every Member of the Society resident in the United 



