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10. Any member or associate proposing to resign shall 

 notify the same in writing to the secretaries previous to the 

 day on which his subscription becomes due. 



11. All subscriptions shall be paid to the treasurer, and 

 shall be due in advance on the ist day of August in each year. 

 Members or associates elected on or after the ist of January 

 in any year shall pay one half of the annual subscription in 

 respect of the current year. 



12. If any member or associate do not pay his subscription 

 for one year after its becoming due, and further neglect to pay 

 it for three months after notice shall have been sent him of 

 this rule, he shall cease to be a member or associate and shall 

 not be qualified for re-election until his subscription in arrear 

 shall have been paid. 



13. The Council shall have power at any time to call upon 

 any associate elected under Rule 9 to allow himself to be 

 nominated for the ordinary membership of the Society, failing 

 which he shall cease to be an associate of the Society at the 

 end of the current financial year of the Society. 



MEETINGS. 



14. The annual meeting of the Society shall be held in the 

 Society's rooms on the first Wednesday in July, at three 

 o'clock in the afternoon, or on such other day and at such 

 other hour as shall at any time be appointed by the Council, 

 and at such meeting a report of the proceedings and' an 

 abstract of the accounts of the past financial year shall be 

 presented by the Council. 



15. Ordinary meetings shall be held at such times and 

 under such regulations as shall from time to time be appointed 

 by the Council. 



16. Special meetings shall be held at such times as shall be 

 appointed by the Council, either at their discretion or at the 

 request in writing of five ordinary members, addressed to the 

 secretaries fourteen days previously ; and such business only 

 shall be transacted at the special meetings as shall have beet) 

 specially announced. 



