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Rules of the Avicultural Society.



6. —Members 1 intending to resign their membership at the end of the

current year of the Society are expected to give notice to the Business

Secretary before the ist of October, so that their names may not be

included in the “ List of Members,” which shall be published annually in

the November number of the Magazine.


7. —The Magazine of the Society shall be issued on or about the first

day of every mouth*, and forwarded, post free, to all the Members who

shall have paid their subscription for the year; btit no Magazine shall be

sent or delivered to any Member u?itil the annual subscription shall have

reached the hands of the Business Secretary. Members whose subscription

shall not have been paid as above by the first day in September in any year

shall cease to be Members of the Society, and shall not be re-admitted

until a fresh entrance fee, as well as the annual subscription, shall have

been paid.


8. —The Secretaries, Editor, and Treasurer shall be elected for a term

of five years, and, should a vacancy occur, it may be filled up by the Executive

Committee. At the expiration of the term of five years in every case, it

shall be competent for the Council to re-elect the officer for a further term

of five years, unless a second candidate be proposed by not less than

twenty-five Members of at least two years’ standing, as set forth below.


The members of the Council shall retire by rotation, two

at the end of each year of the Society (unless a vacancy or vacancies shall

occur otherwise), and two other members of the Society shall be recom¬

mended by the Council to take the place of those retiring. The names of

the two members recommended shall .be printed in the September number

of the Avicultural Magazine. Should the Council’s selection be objected

to by fifteen or more members, these shall have power to put forward two

other candidates whose names, together with the signatures of not less than

fifteen members proposing them, must reach the Hon. Business Secretary

by the i^ih of September. The name of the four candidates will then be

printed on a voting paper and sent to each member with the October

number of the Magazine, and the result of the voting published in the

November issue. Should no alternative candidates be put forward, in the

manner and by the date above specified, the two candidates recommended

by the Council shall be deemed to have been duly elected. In the event of

an equality of votes the President shall have a casting vote.


9. —Immediately after the election of the Council, that body shall

proceed to elect three from its members ( ex-officio members not being

eligible). These three, together with the Secretaries and Editor, shall form

a Committee known as the Executive Committee. Members of the Council

shall be asked every year (whether there has been an election of that body



Owing to the extra pressure of work, the October and November numbers are liable to


be late.



