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in case of equality, shall have a casting vote in addition, and the said 
Committee shall have power to make bye-laws for their own government 
in the execution of the duties confided to them. 
10. And it is Our will and pleasure also, that the Fellows of " the 
Society," or any eleven or more of them, shall and may, on the second 
Tuesday in the month of February in the year 1862, and on the second 
Tuesday in the month of February in every succeeding year, assemble to- 
gether at the then last or other usual place of meeting of " the Society," or 
some other convenient place (which meeting shall be called the " Annual 
Meeting,") and that at each and every such meeting the Fellows then 
present shall proceed by method of ballot to put out and remove some three 
of the Members of the Council of the preceding year, and shall and may, 
by method of ballot, elect three other discreet persons from amongst 
the Fellows of " the Society," to supply the places of such three 
as shall have been so put out and removed (so that one-fifth of the 
Council shall be yearly removed and renewed by ballot as aforesaid). 
And it is Our will and pleasure also, that at each and every annual 
meeting the Fellows then present shall and may, in manner aforesaid, 
elect from among the Members of the Council for the year next 
ensuing, the President, Treasurer, and Secretary of " the Society " for 
such ensuing year (each of such offices to be filled by a distinct 
person), and also elect, as well in the first instance as annually 
from time to time afterwards from the members of " the Society," 
three persons, to form (with the three Committee-men appointed or to 
be appointed by the Commissioners,) the expenses Committee aforesaid 
for the year ensuing ; and in case of the death or incapacity from any 
cause whatever of any of the Members of the Council, or of the President, 
Treasurer, or Secretary for the time being, or of any of " the Society's " 
Committee-men aforesaid, either before the first of the annual meetings 
aforesaid or between any two of such annual meetings, the said Council 
shall and may nominate or appoint some other discreet person or persons, 
being a Fellow or Fellows of " the Society," to supply the place or places 
of the Member or Members of Council and of the President, Treasurer, 
and Secretary respectively, and of the Committee-man or Committee-men 
respectively, or any or either of them respectively, so dying or becoming 
incapable, until the annual meeting next following such nomination or 
appointment ; and such Member or Members of Council, President, 
Treasurer, and Secretary, and Committee-men or Committee-man respec- 
tively so nominated or appointed as aforesaid, shall until and on such 
next annual meeting be deemed to stand respectively for all purposes in 
the place of the person or persons respectively, or officers respectively, in 
or to whose place they respectively shall have been so nominated or 
appointed or should have succeeded ; and further, as regards any Member 
or Members of Council dying or becoming incapable before the first 
annual meeting aforesaid, or in the interval between any two such annual 
meetings as aforesaid, and whose place or places shall not be supplied by 
the said Council as aforesaid, the place or places of such Member or 
Members of Council shall at the first or next annual meeting after the 
vacancy be supplied from the Fellows of " the Society," by ballot as 
aforesaid and in such case the number of Fellows to be balloted out at 
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