414 .TOURXAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
such meeting shall be proportionably reduced, it being Our will and 
pleasure that the vacancy or vacancies by reason of death or incapacity, 
not supplied by the Council, and actually existing at the time of any 
annual meeting, shall be treated and supplied as and in lieu of a vacancy 
by ballot. And it is also Our will and pleasure that any such annual 
meeting as aforesaid may accept the resignation of, or for incapacity 
remove, any one or more of the Members of the Council for the time 
being, and elect in manner aforesaid any person or persons from among 
the Fellows in the place or places of the Members so retiring or being re- 
moved, in addition to the Member or Members which the Fellows present 
at such meeting are hereinbefore authorised to elect. And further, 
that it shall be lawful for any such annual meetmg to resolve that the 
Secretary of *' the Society " shall be a paid officer, and, accordingly, that 
such salary or compensation shall be paid to him as shall be determined 
by the said meeting, but in such case the Secretary shall be incapable of 
being a Member of the Council, and such meeting shall in manner afore- 
said thereupon appoint a Member of Council in his place. And it shall 
also be lawful for any such annual meeting to resolve that the three 
members appointed by the Society " to form part of the Committee for 
regulating the amounts to be retained by the said Society for the expenses 
aforesaid shall be paid, and accordingly that such salary or compensation 
shall be paid to them as shall be determined by the said meeting, but in 
such case the said Members of such Committee shall be incapable of 
being Members of the Council, and such meeting shall in manner afore- 
said thereupon appoint Members of Council in their place. 
11. And it is Our further will and pleasure, that so socn 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 Members 
of the said Council, to be Vice-Presidents of ''the Society " for the year 
ensuing. 
12. And it is Our further will and pleasure, that the three persons who 
shall be appointed by the Commissioners Members of the said Expenses 
Committee shall be appointed simultaneously with or iramediatel}* before 
or after the appointment of the Members of the said Committee who 
shall be appointed by the Council, and that notice thereof shall be given 
by the Commissioners to " the Society " at the time of or immediately after 
the said appointment by " the Society," and that such Committee shall 
continue for the year ensuing. Nevertheless, on the death or incapacity 
of any or either of the Committee-men appointed by the Commissioners 
before the expiration of their or his year of office, the place of such de- 
ceased or incapable Committee-men respectively, or Committee-man, may 
be forthwith supplied by the Commissioners, and the person or persons 
so appointed shall continue in office until the time at which the deceased 
or incapable Committee-man would have vacated his office, if living. 
13. And AYe do further declare and grant, that on, or at any time and 
from time to time after, the said second Tuesday in February, 1862, the 
Fellows of "the Society," or any seven or more of them, shall and may 
have power at the general meetings of " the Society," to be held at the 
usual place of meeting of "the Society," or at such other place as shall 
