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ing shall specify the object for which it is called, and 

 no other business shall be entertained. 



XIX. The Council shall call a Special Meeting of special 

 the Society, on receiving a requisition in writing Meetings, 

 signed by twenty-four Members of the Society, 

 specifying the purpose for which the meeting is 

 required, or upon a resolution of its own. No other 

 business shall be entertained at such meeting. Notice 



of such meeting, and the purpose for which it is sum- 

 moned, shall be sent to every Member at least ten 

 days before the meeting. 



XX. The Council shall annually prepare a Report Annual 

 of the Proceedings of the Society during the past Report 

 year, embodying the balance-sheet, duly audited by 

 two Auditors to be appointed for the year at the 

 Ordinary Meeting in December, exhibiting a state- 

 ment of the present position of the Society. This 

 Report shall be laid before the Society at the Annual 

 Meeting in March. No paper shall be read at this 

 meeting. 



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

 Council that the conduct of an officer or a member is Members - 

 injurious to the character of the Society, and if two- 

 thirds of the Council present shall be satisfied, after 

 opportunity of defence has been afforded to him that 



such is the case, it may call upon him to resign, and 

 shall have the power to expel him from the Society, or 

 remove him from any office therein at its discretion. 

 In every case all proceedings shall be entered upon the 

 minutes. 



XXII. Every candidate for membership shall be Election of 

 proposed and seconded by Members of the Society. Members - 

 The name, the address, and the occupation of every 

 candidate, with the names of his proposer and of his 

 seconder, shall be communicated in writing to the 

 Secretary, 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 votes 

 in favour of any candidate shall be five times the . 

 number of those against him, he shall be declared duly 

 elected, and not otherwise. 



