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be called by the Council at sticli time and place, and upon such terms, and 
;mbject to such conditions as the Council may decide. 
28. As soon as the resolution of the Council referred to in the last 
bye-law has been passed, a copy of the proposal delivered at the Society's 
office shall forthwith be sent by post, under registered cover, to the 
address (as entered in the Society's books) of the person proposed to 
be removed. Such proposal and its publication shall be deemed a 
privileged communication. 
CHAPTER VII. 
Annual and General Meetings. 
29. There shall be held in every year, on the second Tuesday in 
February, a meeting of the Fellows of the Society, to be called the annual 
meeting, but deemed also a general meeting. 
30. At this meeting the Council shall present to the Society a Report 
of their proceedings for the past year ; and the election of members of 
Council and the Officers of the Society, as prescribed in the Charter, 
shall take place. 
31. At this meeting any other business relating to the affairs of the 
Society may be transacted. Notice of the day, time, and place of liolding 
the annual meeting shall be sent to all Fellows of the Society not less than 
seven days before the date of such meeting. 
32. The annual and all other general meetings shall be held at the 
usual place of meeting of the Society, or at some other convenient place 
appointed by the Council, and at such time as may be determined by 
the Council, at least seven days' notice having been given. 
33. The Council may, whenever they think fit — and they shall upon 
a requisition in writing signed by not less than twelve Fellows of the 
Society— call a general meeting ; but every such requisition shall express 
the object of the meeting proposed to be called, and shall be left at the 
offices of the Society, addressed to the Secretary ; and upon receipt of 
such requisition it shall be the duty of the Council to summon a 
general meeting to be held within twenty-one days thereafter. 
34. Notice of the day, time, and place of holding such general meeting 
called upon the requisition of Fellows, and full particulars of the busi- 
ness to be transacted thereat, shall be given, one week at least before the 
meeting, in one or more of the London new^spapers ; and at such meeting 
no other business except that for which the meeting is called shall be 
transacted. 
35. The President of the Society shall have power to summon a 
general meeting whenever he may consider it urgently necessary to do so. 
CHAPTER VIII. 
Proceedings at General Meetings. 
36. The quorum present at any meeting other than the annual meeting 
shall be ten, and no business shall be transacted unless such quorum 
is present. 
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