10 BYE-LAWS. 



proposed for any office than the number to be elected to such 

 office, shall be wholly void, and be rejected by the Scrutineers. 



7. The Ballot for the Council shall remain open for one quarter 

 of an hour, at the least ; and the Ballot for the Officers for one 

 quarter of an hour, at the least, after the result of the Ballot for the 

 Council shall have been declared. 



8. No Ballot shall be taken unless nine or more Members shall 

 be present. 



9. If from any cause an election shall not take place of persons 

 to fill the Council, or any of the offices aforesaid, then the election 

 of the Council and Officers, or the election of Officers, as the case 

 may be, shall be adjourned until the next convenient day, of which 

 notice shall be given in like manner as is directed for the Annual 

 Meeting. 



Chap. XXI. Transactions and Journal of Proceedings. 



1. The Transactions shall consist of such Papers communicated 

 to the Meetings of the Society as the Council shall order to be 

 published therein. 



2. The Transactions shall be published quarterly, and at such 

 prices as the Council shall direct for each Part or Volume ; but the 

 price for one copy of each Part or Volume, to each Member or 

 Subscriber who shall not be in arrear in the payment of his Annual 

 Contribution, shall not exceed three-fourths of the price charged to 

 the public. 



2. Authors of Memoirs published in the Transactions shall be 

 allowed twenty-five copies of their communications gratis. If any 

 additional number be required, the entire expense thereof shall be 

 paid for by the Authors. 



4. A Journal of Proceedings of the Society shall also be pub- 

 li bed, containing Abstracts of the Papers read and Notices of 

 other Matters communicated at the Ordinary Meetings of the 

 Society. 



5. The Journal of Proceedings shall be ready for delivery to 

 Members and Subscribers within six months after the entry of such 

 Proceedings in the Minute Book has been confirmed, and shall also 

 be bound up and sold with the Transactions. 



Chap. XXII. Alteration of the Bye-Laws. 

 Any of the Bye-Laws of the Society may^at any time be repealed 

 or altered, or others adopted in lieu thereof, at a Special Meeting 



