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Executive 

 Officers. 



Council. 



Membership. 2. A Subscriber of one guinea or upwards annually, 



which shall be payable in the month of -January, shall be a 

 Member of the Society • and contributors within one year 

 often guineas or upwards shall be Life Members of the 

 Society ; and any person who may render special services 

 to the Society, by contribution of stock or otherwise, shall 

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

 by the Council, or by any annual general meeting. 



Property 3. AH the property of the Society shall vest in the 



vest in r r J J 



the Council Council for the time being, for the use, purposes, and 



benefit of the Society. 



4. The Society shall be governed by a Council of 

 eighteen Members, to include a President, two Yice- Presi- 

 dents, and an Honorary Treasurer, who, with three other 

 Members (viz., those who have attended the fewest meet- 

 ing of the Council proportionately since their appointment) 

 shall retire annually, but shall be eligible for re-election, 

 subject to Pule 11. 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 Grovernment, then it shall 

 be lawful for the Chief Secretary for the time being to 

 appoint, if he consider it expedient, any number of gentle- 

 men, not exceeding three, to act as members of the 

 Council, and they shall have all the privileges as if other- 

 wise duly elected, 



5. In case of a vacancy occurring by the death, resig- 

 nation,, or non-attendance of any member of the Council 

 for a period of two months, without leave of the Council, 

 the remaining Members shall, in due course, appoint 

 another Member of the Society to be a Member of the 

 Council in the place and stead of the Member who shall 

 so resign or absent himself ; but such r new Member shall be 

 nominated at an ordinary meeting of the Council prior to 

 the meeting at which he is elected. 



Vacancy in 

 Council, 

 how sup- 

 plied. 



