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22. Any ordinary member may nominate any ordinary 

 member or members to fill the respective offices. Every 

 nomination must be signed by the person nominating and 

 sent to the secretaries lo days before the date of the annual 

 meeting. Not more than three members at one time who are 

 such by virtue of their former connection with the Tyneside 

 Naturalists' Field Club shall be eligible for election to the 

 Council. The secretaries shall cause a list of the nominations, 

 together with a voting paper, to be sent to each ordinary 

 member with the notice convening the annual meeting. If 

 the number of persons nominated for any office is less than 

 the number to be elected to that office then the election shall 

 be from the ordinary members generally. The election shall 

 be conducted at the annual meeting in such manner as the 

 chairman shall direct, and the declaration by the chairman at 

 the meeting as to the result of the election shall be final and 

 conclusive. 



23. In case the treasurer, the secretaries, or four of the 

 twelve shall, during his or their year of office die or resign, or 

 become incapable to act, the vacancy so occasioned may be 

 filled up by the Council or not, at their option. 



24. The secretaries shall regularly record the proceedings 

 of all meetings of the Society, and of the Council, and they 

 shall, under the Council's direction, conduct the Society's 

 correspondence and prepare the annual report, and shall also 

 superintend the printing of such reports and the other papers 

 of the Society. 



25. The funds of the Society shall be deposited in the 

 hands of the treasurer, and shall be disbursed by him accord- 

 ing to the direction of the Council. 



26. The expenditure of the funds of the Society, the en- 

 forcing of its laws, and the general management and conduct 

 of its affairs, shall be confided to the Council ; they shall have 

 the appointment of all necessary paid officers and servants ; 

 and they shall have power to make regulations, from time to 

 t;ime^ for the guidance of such officers apd servants, 



