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3. Election to the Council shall take place at the same 
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 Report, 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. 
Cuaprer VI. 
The President, General Officers, and Staff. 
1. The President assumes office on the first day of the 
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. 
Elections, 
The Presi- 
dent. 
2. The General Officers of the Association are the Genera] General 
Treasurer and the Genera! Secretaries. 
Officers. 
