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9. — Every candidate for admission into the Society must be proposed 

 and seconded at one meeting and balloted for at the next ; and when two- 

 thirds of the votes of the members present are in favour of the candidate 

 he shall be duly elected. No new member shall be entitled to any of the 

 privileges and advantages of the Society until he shall have paid his 

 subscription for the first year of his membership. 



10. — Each member shall have the right to be present and vote at all 

 general meetings, and to propose candidates for admission as members. 

 He shall also have the privilege of introducing two visitors to the ordinary 

 and field meetings of the Society. 



11. — No member shall have the right of voting, or be entitled to any of 

 the advantages of the Society, if his subscription be six months in arrear. 

 And if any member's subscription shall be in arrear for three years, the 

 Council shall have power in their discretion to remove his name from the 

 List of Members, and he shall thereupon cease to be a member, and to 

 have any claim or interest in the Society or its property ; but this 

 Rule is without prejudice to any claim which the Society may have 

 against such member for arrears of subscriptions. 



12. — The annual meeting shall be held on the fourth Wednesday in 

 February, for the purpose of electing officers for the year ensuing, for 

 receiving the reports of the Council and Auditors, and for transacting any 

 other business. 



13. — Notice of the Annual Meeting shall be given at the preceding- 

 ordinary meeting. 



14. — The ordinary meetings shall be held on the fourth Wednesday in 

 the months of October, November, January, March, April, and May, and 

 the third Wednesday in December, or at such other date and at such place 

 as- the Council may determine. The chair shall be taken at 8 p.m., and 

 the business of the meeting being disposed of, the meeting shall resolve 

 into a conversazione. 



15. — Field meetings may be held during the summer months at the 

 discretion of the Council ; of these, due notice as respects time, place, &c, 

 shall be sent to each member. 



16. — Special meetings shall be called by the Secretaries immediately 

 upon receiving a requisition signed by not less than five members, such 

 requisition to state the business to be transacted at the meeting. 

 Fourteen days' notice of such meeting shall be given in writing by the 



