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Meetings. 



25. Meetings of the Society shall be convened by circular to the 

 members resident in the colony, The circular shall state the subjects to 

 be brought before the meeting, the names of the candidates for member- 

 ship, and any notice of motion. 



26. Meetings of the Society shall be held on days to be fixed by the 

 Council ; and as far as practicable one meeting shall be held in each 

 month. Each meeting to commence at half -past 7 o'clock p.m. 



27. The President, or in his absence one of the Vice-Presidents, 

 shall take the chair; and in the event of the absence of all the above, the 

 members present shall elect a Chairman. 



28. The business at the Society's meetings shall be transacted in the 

 following order, unless it be specially decided otherwise : — 



i. The reading and confirming the minutes of the last meeting. 



II. The nomination of candidates for membership and associate- 

 ship ; and the election of members and associates. 



in. Vacancies among officers, if any, to be filled up. 



iv. The transaction of the ordinary business. 



v. Motions to be considered, and notices of motion for next meet- 

 ing to be read. 



vi. The consideration of any special matters which members 

 may desire to bring forward subject to the approval of the 

 Chairman obtained before the commencement of the meeting. 



vn. At 8 o'clock the paper or subject notified in the circular shall 

 be read. 



29. Any member shall be allowed to introduce two visitors upon 

 entering their names in the Visitors' Book. But no visitor shall speak 

 at a meeting of the Society unless specially invited to do so by the 

 Chairman. 



30. No paper shall be read at any meeting which has not been pre- 

 viously notified to the Council. 



31. Every paper read before the Society shall be the property 

 thereof, and immediately after it has been read shall be delivered to 

 the Secretary and shall remain in his custody. 



32. An annual genera] meeting of members duly convened by 

 circular shall be held in the month of October at half-past 7 o'clock in 

 the evening, on such day as the Council may appoint. In the event of 

 less than ten members being present, it shall not be lawful for the 

 meeting to proceed to business except for the purpose of adjournment, 

 and the meeting shall stand adjourned to a day and time then resolved 

 upon. 



33. At the adjourned meeting the members then present may pro- 

 ceed to business although ten members may not be present. 



34. The Council shall call a special meeting of the Society, on 

 receiving a requisition in writing, signed by ten 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 seven days before 

 the meeting. Ten members to form a quorum. 



35. One member of the Society, not being a member of the Council, 

 shall be chosen at the meeting of the Society next before the month of 

 October in each year as auditor of accounts and balance-sheet of the 



