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eligible for life membership, and may be elected as such by 

 the Council, or by any annual general meeting. 



3. The annual subscription shall be payable on the 1 

 day of September in each year, and may be received by any 

 Member of the Council, or the Collector, either of whom on 

 receiving the same shall cause the person so subscribing to be 

 enrolled a member accordingly. 



-4. All the property of the Society, of what nature and Property 

 kind soever, shall vest in Trustees to be appointed by the Tr 

 Council, for the use, purposes, and benefit of the Society. 



5. The Society shall be governed by a Council of eighteen Executive 

 Members, to include a President, two Vice-Presidents, and an 

 Honorary Treasurer, three of whom (viz., those who have Couiaii. 

 attended the fewest Meetings of the Council proportionately 



since their- appointment) shall retire annually, but shall be 

 eligible for re-election. Provided that if any sum of money 

 be voted to the Society by Act of Parliament, or trusts con- 

 ferred upon the Council by the Government, then it shall be 

 lawful for the Chief Secretary for the time being to appoint, 

 if he consider it expedient, any number of gentlemen, not 

 exceeding three, to act as Members of the Council, and they 

 shall have all the privileges as if otherwise duly elected ; and 

 further, to appoint one Co-Trustee, to act in conjunction with 

 the Trustees for the time being of the Society. And provided 

 further, that if the Melbourne Corporation, or any of the ad- 

 jacent municipalities, shall decide upon expending any sum 

 of money exceeding =£100 in any one year, upon the grounds 

 or for the objects of the Society, the Mayor of Melbourne or 

 Chairman of such municipality shall be for such year a 

 Member of the Council, and be at liberty to act in every 

 respect as an ordinary member. 



6. In case of a vacancy occurring bv the death, resignation. V;Ual K v in 



" ° J c Council. 



or non-attendance of anv Member of Council for the period oi h " w s "i - 



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two mouths, the remaining Members may appoint another 

 Member of the Society to be a Member of the Council in the 

 place and stead of the deceased, or resigned, or absenting 

 Member, and such new Member may act until the next annual 

 general meeting. Provided that such vacancy shall not be 

 supplied by the Council except after seven days' notice given 



