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nominated for election as members of Council and for appointment to the 
offices of President, Vice-President, Treasurer, and Secretary respectively 
with the names of the nominators of each such Fellow and shall circu- 
late such list amongst the Fellows, and such list shall (if necessary) be 
used as a balloting paper. 
75. If the number of Fellows duly nominated for election as members 
of Council does not exceed the number of vacancies to be filled at such 
annual meeting, all the Fellows so nominated shall be declared duly 
elected, and if one Fellow only shall be nominated for appointment to 
the office of President, Treasurer, or Secretary, the Fellow so nominated 
shall be declared duly appointed. 
76. If the number of Fellows duly nominated for election as members 
of Council exceeds the number of vacancies to be filled, the number 
required to fill the vacancies shall be elected by ballot from amongst the 
Fellows so nominated. And if more than one Fellow is nominated for 
appointment to the office of President, Treasurer, or Secretary, the 
appointment to such office shall also be made by ballot from amongst 
the Fellows so nominated. 
77. The Auditor shall be nominated and appointed in the way pre- 
scribed for the nomination and appointment of President, Treasurer, and 
Secretary ; but he need not necessarily be a Fellow of the Society. The 
names of all persons duly nominated for appointment to the office of 
Auditor, with the names of the nominators of each such person, shall be 
included in the list provided for by Bye-law 74. 
78. If any Fellow add any name or names other than those in the 
balloting-paper, or if he mark more than the proper number of names, 
such balloting-paper shall be deemed void, and be disregarded by the 
scrutineers in casting up the number of votes. 
79. If from any cause no election, or an incomplete election, of 
members of the Council or of officers take place, the places of such 
of them as have not had their places filled up in pursuance of these bye- 
laws shall be filled itp by the Council. 
CHAPTER XL 
Property of the Society. 
80. The property of the Society, and all additions to the same, shall 
be exclusively employed, under the direction of the Council, in promoting 
the objects of the Society as declared by the Charter of 1899 ; and, 
save as hereinafter mentioned, no dividend, gift, or bonus in money 
shall under any circumstances whatever be paid or made unto or between 
any of its Fellows. But the provisions of this bye-law shall not be con- 
strued to prevent Fellows from competing for and receiving prizes in 
money, medals, c^-c, at any of the Exhibitions of the Society, and shall 
not interfere with privileges of the Fellows as to seeds, plants, cuttings, 
grafts of plants, and publications of the Society. 
81. The Council shall have power to award and pay to any official 
of the Society any donation or pension which they may think deserved. 
