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preceding the Annual General Meeting. He shall receive and acknowledge 

 all Subscriptions, and shall issue tickets of Membership to all persons 

 who are duly elected and have paid their Subscriptions. He shall, when 

 possible, attend Field Meetings and assist the Secretaries. He shall bring 

 before the Council any accounts that are due for payment. After 

 presentation of the Balance Sheet to the Council, he shall submit it to the 

 Auditors, and lastly to the Annual General Meeting of the Society. 



25. — At the Annual General Meeting and at all Ordinary Meetings of 

 the Society, not less than ten Members shall form a quorum. 



26. — At the Annual General Meeting, which shall be held in the 

 month of October, the President, Officers, and Council of the Society, 

 and two Auditors, for the ensuing year shall be elected (either Auditor 

 having the power to audit the accounts in the unavoidable absence of the 

 other). At this Meeting the Council's Report of the past year, together 

 with those of the Chairmen of Sections, and the Hon. Treasurer's 

 statement of accounts, duly signed by the Auditors, shall be submitted. 



27. — Alterations in the Rules shall be sanctioned by a majority of not 

 less than two-thirds of the Members present and voting at the Annual 

 Meeting, or at a Special Meeting called for that purpose, and no alterations 

 shall otherwise be made. 



28. — Notice convening an Annual or Special General Meeting, 

 together with any proposed alterations in the Rules, shall be given to 

 Members at least seven clear days before such Meeting be held. The 

 notice of Ordinary Meetings, and Council Meetings if possible, shall be at 

 least seven clear days. 



29. - On a written requisition, signed by at least five Members of the 

 Society, the Council shall call a Special General Meeting to consider any 

 question as to the affairs of the Society ; such Meeting to be called within 

 three weeks of the receipt of the requisition, and at least seven days' 

 notice shall be given to the Members. At such Meeting no other business 

 than that mentioned on the requisition, and on the notice convening such 

 Meeting, shall be considered. 



