404 JOUEXAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTUEAL SOCIETY. 
of May One Thousand Eight Hundred and Ten, and also shall and may 
on the First day of May in every succeeding year, unless the same shall 
happen to be on a Sunday, and then on the day following, assemble 
together at the then last or other usual place of meeting of the said 
Society, and proceed, by method of Ballot, to put out and amove any 
three of the Members who shall have composed the Council of the pre- 
ceding year, and shall and may in like manner by method of Ballot elect 
three other discreet persons from amongst the Fellows of the said Society 
to supply the places and offices of such three as may have been so put 
out and removed ; it being our Eoyal Will and Pleasure that one-fifth of 
the said Council and no more shall be annually changed and removed by 
the Fellows of the said Society : And also that they the said Fellows, or 
any eleven or more of them, shall and may at the time and in manner 
aforesaid, by method of Ballot, elect from amongst the Members of the 
said Council, when formed and elected in manner aforesaid, three fit and 
proper Persons ; one of such Persons to be President, another of such 
Persons to be Treasurer, and the other of such Persons to be Secretary 
of the said Society for the year ensuing : And also, in like manner, shall 
and may, in case of the death of any of the Members of the Council, or of the 
President, Treasurer, or Secretary for the time being, within the space of 
two months next after such death or deaths, in like manner elect other 
discreet Persons, being Fellows of the said Society, to supply the places 
and Offices of such Members of the said Council, or of the President, 
Treasurer, or Secretary so dying : And also shall and may appoint such 
other Persons to be Officers of the said Society for the year ensuing as 
they may think proper and necessary for the transacting and managing 
the Business thereof. 
And it is Our further Will and Pleasure that, so soon after the 
Elections aforesaid as conveniently may be, the Person who shall at any 
time hereafter be elected to be President of the said Society, in manner 
aforesaid, may and shall nominate and appoint four Persons, being Mem- 
bers of the said Council, to be Vice-Presidents of the said Society for the 
year ensuing. 
And We do further declare and grant, that, from and after the first 
day of May now next ensuing, the Fellows of the said Society, or any 
seven or more of them, shall and may have power from time to time at 
the general Meetings of the said Society, to be held at the usual place of 
meeting of the said Society or at such other place as shall have been in 
that behalf appointed, by method of Ballot, to elect such Persons to be 
Fellows, Honorary Members, and Foreign Members of the said Society, 
and all Fellows, Honorary Members, and Foreign Members, to remove 
from the said Society as they shall think fit. Provided that no such 
Fellow, Honorary Member, and Foreign Member shall be declared elected 
or removed, unless it shall appear upon such Ballot that two-thirds of the 
Fellows present at such Meeting shall have voted for the same. 
And We do further declare and grant that the Council hereby 
appointed, and the Council of the said Society for the time being, or any 
three or more of them (all the Members thereof having been first duly 
