16 Rules of the Avicultural Society.


Members shall pay, in addition, an entrance fee of 10/6; and, on payment of

their entrance fee and subscription, they shall be entitled to receive all the

Numbers of the Society’s Magazine for the current year.


6. —Members 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 month*, and forwarded, post free, to all the Members who

shall have paid their subscription por the year; but no Magazine shall be

sent or delivered to any Member until 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 of 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 Editor shall have an absolute discretion as to what matter

shall be published in the Magazine (subject to the control of the Council).

The Business Secretary and Editor shall respectively refer all matters of

doubt or difficulty to the Council. The decision of the majority of the

Council shall be final and conclusive in all matters.


9. —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.


As regards the Council, an election may take place any October

should the number of sitting Members and candidates exceed, if only by

one, the number of vacancies. Should two years pass without an election,

in the third there shall be a general election, as shown below. Should,

however, the number of candidates not exceed twelve, voting papers

would not be issued.


Candidates for any post must be proposed in writing by one Member,

and seconded by one (or more, see above) other Member, before they shall

be eligible for election ; but this shall not apply to officers willing to stand

for re-election to the same office. All such proposals which have been duly



* Owing to the extra pressure of work, the October and November numbers must


be late.



