ANNUAL MEETING. 



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will be supplied to each Member and Associate : but separate copies 

 of each of these may be obtained from the Institute. I have 

 much pleasure in proposing the vote of thanks to our Chairman. 



Commander Heath seconded the vote, which was put to the 

 meeting and carried unanimously. 



The Chairman. — I am very much obliged to you for the vote of 

 thanks. I did not know until I came into the room that I should 

 be called on to fill the chair, and I was hardly prepared for it. 



As I said before, we have all got the welfare of the Institute 

 before us ; yet the thing we come here for is the Cause rather than 

 the Institute. 



New Eule Eegaeding Election on the Council. 



The attention of ]\Iembers and Associates is called to the 

 following alteration in the rule of the Consfifufion, paragraph 2, 

 duly adopted at a special general meeting on Monday, May 21st, 

 1906, the effect of which will be to allow Associates to be elected 

 on the Council : — ■ 



" The government of the Society shall be vested in a Council whose 

 jNIembers shall be chosen from among the Members and Associates of 

 the Society who are professedly Christians ; and shall consist of a 

 President, tw^o or more (not exceeding seven) Vice-Presidents, a 

 Treasurer, one or more Secretaries (Honorary or otherwise), and 

 twelve or more (not exceeding twenty-four) Ordinary Members of 

 Council, who shall be elected at the Annual General Meeting of the 

 Members and Associates of the Institute. But, in the interval 

 between two Annual Meetings, vacancies in the Council may be 

 filled up by the Council. 



" The Members or Associates chosen as Trustees of the funds of 

 the Institute shall be ex officio Members of Council." 



