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6. Membership in the Association shall consist of individuals, 

 Membership partnerships, voluntary associations and incorporated companies 



who are owners of foxes registered or enrolled in the Association 

 provided they have conformed to all the regulations of this Act and its by-laws 

 and amendments. 



7. There shall be a general meeting of the Association held 

 mieeion annually in Charlottetown on the first Tuesday after the fifteenth 



day of February, and at the first annual meeting a Board of 

 Directors shall be chosen, consisting of fifteen members of the Association, duly 

 qualified to act as such, five of whom shall be residents of Queen's County, five 

 of King's County and five of Prince County. At the first annual meeting five 

 directors shall be elected for a term of three years, five for a term of two years 

 and the remaining five for one year. At each subsequent annual meeting five 

 directors shall be elected for a term of three years, and also such additional 

 directors as may be necessary to fill vacancies on the Board for the remainder 

 of the terms of the directors resigning, dying, becoming incapacitated, or ceasing 

 to be residents of this Province. 



8. The directors shall appoint from their own number a Presi- 

 AsBodatfon * <'^"t ^""^ three Vice-Presidents, one for Queen's, Prince and 



King's Counties, respectively, and an Executive Committee of 

 seven members, of whom the President shall be one. The Directors shall also 

 appoint a Secretary and Treasurer who shall ex ofUcio be members of the 

 Association, and all other necessary officers. The same person may be Secretary 

 and Treasurer of the Association. 



9. At least two weeks' previous notice of such meeting with 

 Meeting ^u" particulars as to place, hour and date shall be given by the 



Secretary of the Association by advertisement in such newspapers 

 published in Prince Edward Island as the Executive may suggest. 



10. The Secretary of the Association shall annually on or 

 Statement before the 8th day of February in each year, furnish and provide 



a full, true, correct and complete statement of all receipts and 

 disbursements of the Association up to and including the 31st of December next 

 preceding, and submit the same to the members thereof by mailing a copy 

 thereof to each member of the Association. 



Offioers to H. In the event of an election of directors or officers of the 



SnccessorsAp- Association not being held at the tinte and place provided for 

 pointed under the authority herein, then the persons in office at the time 



when such election should have been legally held, shall continue to be the officers 

 of the Association until their successors are legally appointed. And in the 

 event of the annual meeting not being for any reason held on the day appointed, 

 or the non-election of directors or officers as aforesaid, the directors shall call 

 a special meeting of the Association within sixty days thereafter, of which 

 special meeting at least two weeks' notice shall be given in the manner provided 

 in Section 9 of this Act and at such meeting the election of directors and officers 

 shall take place, and all such business as may be transacted at an annual meeting 

 may be transacted at this meeting. 



. 12. A director of the Association may, by giving thirty days' 



Dfrectors'"' " notice in writing to the President or Secretary of the Association, 

 resign from office, and in the case of a director of the Associa- 

 tion dying, becoming incapacitated, resigning office, ceasing to be a resident of 

 this Province or failing to attend two consecutive meetings without cause shown 

 satisfactory to the Board, it shall be the duty of the directors to appoint a 

 person to fill the office until the next annual meeting of the person so resigning, 

 dying, becoming incapacitated, ceasing to be a resident of this Province or 

 failing to attend two consecutive meetings without cause shown satisfactory to 

 the Board. 



