Rules of the Avicultural Society. 17


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 1st of October, so that their names may not be

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

our 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 ivho

shall have paid their subscription for 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 subscriptions

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 temporarily filled up

by the Executive Committee (see Rule 10). At the expiration of the term of

five years in every case, it shall be competent for the Council to nominate

the same officer, or another Member, 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.


In the September number of the Magazine preceding the retirement

from office of the Secretaries, Editor, or Treasurer, the Council shall

publish the names of those gentlemen whom the)' have nominated to fill

the vacancies thus created ; and these gentlemen shall be deemed duly

elected unless another candidate or candidates be proposed by not less than

fifteen members of at least two years standing. Such proposal, duly

seconded and containing the written consent of the nominee to serve it

elected, in the capacity for which he is proposed, must reach the Business

Secretary on or before the 15th of September.


The Council shall also publish yearly in the September number of

the Magazine the names of those gentlemen nominated by them for the

posts of Auditor and Scrutineer respectively.


9. — 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 recommended 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


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


be late.



