430 .T(>UPvXAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
to the objects or concerns of the Society ; and may require such Com- 
mittees to report, and may dissolve or alter the constitution of such 
Committees whenever they think proper. 
55. The President, Secretary, or any three members of the Council 
may at any time call a meeting of the Council. 
56. No meeting of the members of the Council shall constitute a 
meeting of the Council unless five or more members be present. 
57. The President shall ahvays be one of the members of Council,, 
and shall be the Chairman of all meetings of the Council ; or in 
case of his absence, some other member of the Council shall be elected 
as Chairman by the meeting. 
58. The decision of the majority of members voting at a meeting 
of Council shall be considered as the decision of the Council, and the 
Chairman shall be entitled to vote ; and if the votes on either side be 
equal, to give a second or casting vote, but not merely to make up a 
quorum. 
59. Notes of the proceedings of every meeting of the Council shall be 
taken by the Secretary or his Assistant, and minutes thereof shall after- 
wards be made in a minute book to be kept for that purpose. The first 
business at every meeting of the Council shall be to read the minutes of 
the last previous meeting, and the Chairman of the day shall sign the same. 
60. One-fifth of the Members of Council shall retire every year at 
the annual meeting. In the years 1900, 1901, 1902, and 1903, the 
Council shall prescribe the one-fifth of the original members who are 
to retire, and in succeeding years the one-fifth of the members who 
have been longest in office shall retire. Retiring members shall in all 
cases be eligible for re-election, unless disqualified under some bye-law 
for the time being in force. 
61. Any member of the Council may resign his seat on the Council, 
and the Council shall have power to fill up the vacancy so caused. 
62. If any member of the Council dies, or becomes incapacitated from 
any cause whatever before the expiration of his term of ofiice, the Council 
shall fill up the vacancy so caused. 
63. For the purpose of the last bye -law, a member of the Council 
may, by resolution of the Council, be declared incapacitated who shall fail 
to attend a meeting of Council for six calendar months, or who shall be 
sufiering from any bodily or mental disqualification. 
64. If at the time of any annual meeting a vacancy in the Council, 
created by the death, resignation, or incapacity of any member, has not 
been filled up by the Council, such vacancy shall be filled up at that 
meeting. 
65. Any member of the Council may be removed for incapacity by a 
resolution passed at an annual meeting. The meeting at which such 
member is removed shall conclusively judge of what constitutes incapacity 
for the purposes of such removal : but no proposal for the removal of a 
member of the Council shall be entertained by an annual meeting unless 
there has been left with the Secretary, on or before the 1st of January 
preceding the annual meeting, a notice stating the name and address of 
the member proposed to be removed, and stating fully the nature of the 
incapacity in respect of which such proposal is made, nor unless such 
