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Society, and shall examine and certify the same prior to the meeting in 

 October. 



The Council. 



36. The officers of the Society shall be a President, two Vice-Presi- 

 dents, a Treasurer, and a Secretary, who, with four other members, shall 

 constitute the Council. 



37. The Council, on its first meeting, shall appoint one of its mem- 

 bers to represent the Society at the Board of Governors of the South 

 Australian Institute. 



38. The Council shall have the management of the affairs of the 

 Society. 



39. The Council shall meet once in every month for the transaction 

 of business at such time and place as may be appointed. Special meet- 

 ings of the Council may be convened at any other time on the authority 

 of the President, or of three members of the Council. Due notice of all 

 Council meetings to be sent to each member. 



40. No business shall be transacted at any meeting of the Council 

 unless at least four members of the Council are present ; in case of 

 equality of votes the Chairman shall have an additional or casting vote. 



41. It shall be the duty of the Council to decide on the papers to 

 be read at the monthly meetings, whether by members or non-membera ; 

 to determine as to the publication, in whole or in part of any paper so 

 read ; to prepare a report of the proceedings of the Society for the pre- 

 ceding year, and a balance-sheet of the Society's funds, for presentation 

 at the meeting of the Society held in the month of October ; and gene- 

 rally to transact the ordinary affairs of the Society. 



42. Any member of Council personally interested in a question 

 before the Council, shall withdraw during its consideration. 



43. Every vacancy in the Council shall be immediately filled up at 

 the next meeting of the Society, and by election by ballot. The member, 

 so elected, shall occupy the place of the retiring member. 



44. Any member of Council absenting himself from three consecu- 

 tive ordinary meetings of Council, without satisfactory explanation, 

 shall be considered to have vacated office, and the election of a mem- 

 ber, to fill his place, shall be proceeded with in accordance with 

 Eule 43. 



Election of Officers and Members of Council. 



45. All Office-bearers and Members of Council shall retire from 

 office annually at the general meeting in October. 



46. The officers and members of Council, so retiring, shall be 

 eligible for the same or any other office. 



47. The President, the two Vice-Presidents, Treasurer, and Secre- 

 tary shall be separately elected by ballot (should such be demanded) in 

 the above-named order, and the four vacancies in the Council shall be 

 filled up together by ballot at the general meeting in October. 



Secretary. 



48. It shall be the duty of the Honorary Secretary to attend and 

 take minutes of the proceedings of the Society and Council respec- 

 tively, to make the necessary arrangements for meetings, to issue the 

 required notices, to collect the annual subscriptions and to pay them to 



