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€&eneral Jllcctm^s in 1852-3. 



The General December Meeting, in London, on Saturday tlie 

 11th of December, 1852. 



The General May Meeting, in London, on Monday, May 23, 

 1853. 



The Annual Country Meeting, at Gloucester, in the month of 

 July or August, 1853. 



The General December Meeting, in London, on the Saturday 

 in the week of the Meeting of the Smithfield Club in 

 December, 1853. 



Election, ^c, of Members. 



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

 by a Member ; the proposer to specify in writing^ the name, rank, usual place of 

 residence, and post-town, of the candidate, either at a Council or by letter to the 

 Secretary. Every such proposal shall be read at the Council at which such pro- 

 posal is made ; or, in the case of the candidate being proposed by a letter to the 

 Secretary, at the first meeting of the Council next after such letter shall have been 

 received. 



Election. — At the next monthly meeting of the Council the election shall take 

 place, when the decision of the Council shall be taken by a show of hands ; the 

 majority of the Members present to elect or reject. The Secretary shall inform 

 Members of their election by a letter, in such form as the Council may from time 

 to time direct. 



Payments. — 1. Annual. — The subscription of a Governor is 5Z., and that of a 

 Member due in advance on the 1st of January of each year, and becoming in 

 arrear if unpaid by the 1st of June, Members elected in November or December 

 may date the commencement of their liabilities and privileges with the Society 

 from the 1st of January in the ensuing year. 2. For Life. — Governors may com- 

 pound for subscription during future life by paying at once the sum of 50/., and. 

 Members by paying 10/. No Governor or Member in arrear of subscription can 

 be allowed to enter into composition for life until such arrears have been paid. 



Privileges. — The Journals of the Society for the year during which their sub- 

 scription has been paid, transmitted by post, free of charge, to their address; 

 analyses performed at a reduced charge by the consulting chemist ; the liberty of 

 attending all weekly meetings of the Council and lectures delivered before the 

 Members in London, and of consulting the books in the library ; leave to report 

 the outbreak of disease amongst live stock, and to request the personal attendance 

 of the Society's veterinary inspector ; free entry of stock, and priority of claim for 

 dinner and lecture tickets, at the Country Meetings of the Society. No Member 

 in arrear of his subscription is entitled to any of the privileges of the Society. 



Liabilities.— A\\ Members belong to the Society, and are bound to pay their 

 annual subscriptions, until they shall withdraw from it by a notice in writing ta 

 the Secretary. 



Resignation. — Members can only withdraw their names legally from the Society 

 by a written notice to the Secretary, and the payment of all subscriptions due from 

 them at the date of such notice. 



Expulsion. — Members may be dismissed from the Society in the following 

 manner : — Any ten Members of the Society may send, in writing, signed by their 

 names, to the Council a request that any Member of the Society shall be dismissed 

 from the Society. Such request shall be placed in a conspicuous part of the 

 council-room, and a copy thereof transmitted by the post to the Member proposed 

 to be so dismissed, signed by the Secretary. At the Monthly Meeting of the 



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