78 RULES OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



17. No motions, save such as relate to the ordinary routine 

 business of the meeting, shall be adopted at any meeting, 

 unless notice in writing of such motion has been given at a 

 previous meeting, or sent to the secretaries not later than ten 

 days before the date of such meeting. 



. 18. Seven days' notice of every annual or special meeting, 

 stating the business to be brought before the meeting, shall be 

 sent to each ordinary member at his usual or last known place 

 of abode or business. 



19. No alteration shall be made in the laws of the Society 

 except at an annual meeting, and every alteration to be then 

 proposed shall be announced by notice in writing at a previous 

 ordinary or special meeting and inserted in its minutes, or 

 notified in writing to the Council not later than one month 

 before the date of the annual meeting, or in any other manner 

 the Council may think proper. 



Notice of any amendment to any such alteration shall be 

 sent to the secretaries not later than three days before the 

 annual meeting ; but alterations or amendments which in the 

 opinion of the chairman of the meeting do not affect the 

 principle of any law or are merely consequential upon other 

 alterations or amendments may be made without notice. 



20. Every question which shall come before any meeting 

 of the Society shall be decided by the votes of the majority of 

 the ordinary members then present and voting. In case a 

 meeting shall be equally divided on any question, the chair- 

 man of such meeting shall have a second or casting vote. 



OFFICERS. 



21. At each annual meeting a president, four or more vice- 

 presidents, a treasurer, and two secretaries, shall be elected, 

 and with twelve ordinary members to be elected at the same 

 meeting, shall form the Council for the year ensuing. Four 

 of the twelve shall be ineligible for re-election for the ensuing 

 year. The four to retire in the years 1904 and 1905 shall be 

 selected by lot, biit in subsequent years they shall retire by 

 rotation, 



