THE COUNCIL. XI 



The Council shall have power to appoint and dismiss Elections. 

 such paid officers as may be necessary to carry on the work 

 of the Association, on such terms as they may from time to 

 time determine. 



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

 time as that of the Officei-s 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 I'etirement 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. 



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, dent. 

 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. 



