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of Council on tlie authority of the President or of three 

 Members of Council. The notice of such meeting shall 

 specify the object for which it is called^ and no other 

 business shall be entertained. 



Annual Report. XIX. The Council shall annually prepare a report 



of the proceedings of the Society dui'ing the past year, 

 embodying the balance sheet, duly audited, and a state- 

 ment of the present position of the Society. This 

 report shall be laid before the Society at the General 

 Meeting in December. No paper shall be read at this 

 meeting. 



Expulsion of XX. If it shall come to the knowledge of the 



Council that the conduct of a Member is injurious to 

 the character of the Society, and if two-thirds of the 

 whole Council shall be satisfied, after an opportunity of 

 defence has been afforded to the Member, that such is 

 the case, they shall request him to resign, and in case of 

 his not doing so, may expel him from the Society. 



In every case all proceedings shall be entered upon 

 the minutes. 



IfeSgs^^"^'"''^ XXI. The Council shall call a Special General 



Meeting of the Society on receiving a requisition in 

 writing signed by twenty-four Members of the So- 

 ciety, specifying the purpose for which the meeting is 

 required ; no other business shall be entertained at such 

 meeting. Notice of such meeting, and the pui'pose for 

 which it is summoned, shall be sent to every JSIember at 

 least ten days before the meeting. 



Election of 

 Members. 



XXII. Every candidate for membership shall be 

 proposed and seconded by Members of the Society. 

 The name, the addi'ess, and the occupation of every 

 candidate, Avith the names of his proposer and of his 

 seconder, shall be communicated in writing to the Se- 

 cretary, and shall be read at a Meeting of Council, and 

 also at the following Meeting of the Society, and the 

 ballot shall take place at the next following ordinary 

 meeting of the Society. When the number of voters 

 in favour of any candidate shall be five times the number 

 of those against him, he shall be declared duly elected, 

 and not otherwise. 



