1876.] Proposed Alterations in tlie Rules. 165 



EuLE 2. Pro]Josed Alterations. 

 Constitution. 



2. Tlie Society shall consist of Memhers of the three folloioing 

 classes : — 



(a) Ordinary Members, the number o£ whom sball be xmlimited, and who 

 shall be designated as Resident Ilembers, if they permanently dwell 

 in Calcutta, or within 30 miles thereof ; as Non- Resident Memhers, if 

 they permanently dwell loithin the limits specified in Rule 14 D ; and 

 as Foreign Members, if they live permanently beyond those limits. 



(b) As at present. 



(c) As at present. 

 Proviso. — As at present. 



3. Persons of all nations shall be eligible as Members of the Society. 



4. The administration, direction and management of the affairs of the 

 Society shall be entrusted to a Council composed of the Officers of the 

 Society, namely : a President, three Vice-Presidents, and one 'or more 

 Secretaries, including the Treasurer, ivith as many other ordinary Members 

 as shall with these officers mahe up a total of fifteen. 



Rule 3. Proposed additional Clause. 



Should titer e be no meeting during the recess months of September and 

 October, the Council shall be empowered to elect candidates for ordinary 

 Membership, loho shall have been duly proposed and seconded at the Meeting 

 of the Society in August, or ivhose names may be received as candidates 

 during the recess. Such candidates shall be hallotted for at the Meeting of 

 the Council next succeeding that at tvhich their names and those of their 

 proposers and seconders shall have been laid before the Council ; and during 

 the interval between the two meetings these names shall be suspended in the 

 Society's meeting Room as provided in Rule 3 ; and it shall be necessary for 

 the due election of such candidates, that not less than two-thirds of the Mem- 

 bers of Council present at the meeting shall vote in their favour. Such 

 elections shall he reported and confirmed at the first general meeting of the 

 Society after the Recess. 



Rule 5. A. B. C. Proposed Alterations. 



5. A. As at present. 



B. No person, although duly elected according to the foregoing Rules, 

 shall be entitled to exercise the rights and privileges of Mcmbcrsliip, nor 

 shall his name be entered in the list of Members, until he bus paid his 

 admission fee and first quarterly subscription. 



