XVI 



STATUTES. 



Functions. 



Elections. 



(i) 



The ex officio Members are — Past Presidents of 

 the Association, the President for the year, the 

 President and Vice-Presidents for the ensuing 

 Annual Meeting, past and present General Treasurers 

 and General Secretaries, past Assistant General 

 Secretaries, and the Local Treasurers and Local 

 Secretaries for the Annual Meetings im mediately- 

 past and ensuing. 



(ii) The Ordinary Members shall not exceed twenty-five in 

 number. Of these, not more than twenty shall have 

 served on the Council as Ordinary Members in the 

 previous year. 



2. The Council shall have authority to act, in the name and 

 on behalf of the Association, in all matters which do not con- 

 flict with the functions of the General Committee. 



In the interval between two Annual Meetings, the Council 

 shall manage the affairs of the Association and may fill up 

 vacancies among the General and other Officers, until the next 

 Annual Meeting. 



The Council shall hold such meetings as they may think 

 fit, and shall in any case meet on the first day of the Annual 

 Meeting, in order to complete and adopt the Annual Report, 

 and to consider other matters to be brought before the General 

 Committee. 



The Council shall nominate for election by the General 

 Committee, at each Annual Meeting, a President and General 

 Officers of the Association. 



The Council shall have power to appoint and dismiss 

 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 

 (6) 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. 



