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Laws. 



of P counS eetings XVIII. One of the Secretaries shall call a Special 

 Meeting of Council on the authority of the President or 

 of three Members of the Council. The notice of such 

 meeting shall specify the object for which it is called, 

 and no other business shall be entertained. 



special General XIX, The Council shall call a Special Meeting of the 

 Meetings. Society, on receiving a requisition in writing 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 summoned, shall be 

 sent to every Member at least ten days before the 

 meeting. 



Annual Report. XX. The Council shall annually prepare a Report 

 of the Proceedings of the Society during the past 

 year, embodying the balance-sheet, duly audited by 

 two Auditors, to be appointed for the year, at the 

 Ordinary Meeting in December, exhibiting a statement 

 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 that meeting. 



Expulsion of 

 Members. 



XXI. If it shall come to the knowledge of the 

 Council that the conduct of an Officer or a Member is 

 injurious to the interest 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. 



Election of Mem- XXII. Every candidate for election as Member 

 ates. or as Associate shall be proposed and seconded by 



Members of the Society. The name, the address, and 

 the occupation of every candidate, with the names of 

 his proposer and of his seconder, shall be communi- 

 cated in writing to one of the Secretaries, 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. 



