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(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, present at the meeting of 

 the General Committee, require it to be by ballot. 



Chapter VI. 

 The President, General Officers, and Staff. 



\. The President shall assume office on the first day of the ihe Presi- 

 Annual Meeting, when he shall deliver a Presidential Address, flent. 

 He shall resigii 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. 



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

 Treasurer and the General Secretaries. Officers. 



It shall be competent for the General Officers to act, in 

 the name of the Association, in any matter of urgency which 

 cannot be brought under the consideration of the Council ; 

 and they shall report such action to the Council at the next 

 meeting. 



3. The General Treasurer shall be responsible to the The General 

 General Committee and the Council for the financial affairs i'reasurer. 

 of the Association. 



4. The General Secretaries shall control the general The General 

 organisation and administration, and shall be responsible to ' *^*''^ anes. 

 the General Committee and the Council for conducting the 

 correspondence and for the general routine of the work of 



the Association, excepting that which relates to Finance. 



5. The Secretary of the Association shall hold office during 'i'''e 

 the pleasure of the Council. He shall act under the direction 



of the General Secretaries, and in their absence shall repre- 

 sent them. He shall also act on the directions which may 



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