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RULES OF THE 



Amended to February 5th, 1912. 



Title 



Objects 



1. — The title of the Society 

 NATURAL SCIENCE SOCIETY. 



shall be THE BOURNEMOUTH 



Members 



Council 



Executive 

 Officers 



Ordinary 

 -Members 



2. — The objects of the Society shall be the promotion of the study 

 of Science in all its branches, by means of Lectures, Field Meetings, the 

 Reading and Discussion of Papers, and the formation of Sections of its 

 members devoted to any particular branch of the Society's work, or by 

 any other means that the .governing body of the Society shall deem 

 advisable. 



3. — The Society shall encourage the making of reports on any plant, 

 animal, or object of interest, and where the Society may deem it neces- 

 sary, shall take such steps as may be advisable to secure any such 

 plant, animal, or object of interest from injury, extinction or destruc- 

 tion. 



4. — The Society shall consist of Ordinary, Life, Associate, and 

 Honorary Members. 



5. — There shall be a Council of the Society consisting of the Hon. 

 Treasurer, Hon. Secretary^ Hon. Assistant Secretary, Assistant Secre- 

 tary, the Vice-Presidents who have filled the office of President, the 

 Hon. Librarian, the Chairmen of Sections and eight elected Members. 



The Council shall have the general management of the Society. At 

 all Meetings of the Council, five shall form a Quorum. The Council 

 shall elect their own Chairman and Deputy-Chairman for the Year, and 

 shall have power to fill up any vacancies in their number which may 

 occur from time to time. The Council shall have power to appoint 

 Committees to deal with any business that may be delegated to them. 



The Chairman, or in his absence the Deputy Chairman, at all 

 Meetings of the Council shall have an original and a casting vote. 



The Council shall have the control of the Funds of the Society. 



6. — The Executive Officers of the Society shall consist of the Chair- 

 man and Deputy Chairman of Council, Hon. Treasurer, Hon. Secretary 

 and one or more Assistant Secretaries. 



7. — The Ordinary, Life, and Associate Members of the Society shall 

 be proposed by an existing Member, and seconded by another existing 

 Member, and notice shall be sent to one of the Secretaries of the 

 Society of the names and address of the nominee, and the names of the 

 proposer and seconder. Any such proposed new Member shall be voted 

 for at the next ensuing Council Meeting, and if two-thirds of the 

 Council present and voting shall vote for the proposed new member, 

 such candidate shall become a Member upon payment of the Annual 

 Subscription, and shall receive a card of Membership (not transferable) 

 entitling him or her to attend the Meetings of the Society. Members 

 joining during August and September shall be given a card of member- 

 ship to September 30th of the following year. 



8. — Ordinary Members shall pay an Annual Subscription of Ten 

 Shillings, due on the first day of October in each Year. The Annual 

 Subscription for Adult Members of the same family, not exceeding four 

 and residing in the same house, shall be Twenty Shillings, each Mem- 

 ber being elected in the usual manner and each receiving a card of 

 membership. 



