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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 second 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 in respect to 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. 



