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31. The Secretary shall notify to the Council on the printed Notiticitimi of 
agenda-paper, any vacancy which shall be declared in the list of ^"''^'""■y- 
Trustees, Vice-Presidents, or Members of Council, at the Meeting 
of the Council next after tlio happening of such vacancy, and 
such vacancy shall not bo filled up until the Monthly Meeting 
of the Council whicli shall take place next after such notice, 
when the recommendation of the Committee of Selection shall bo 
received and considered. 
32. In the absence of the President, the chair shall be taken by Cliairmiin. 
a Trustee or Vice-President ; and shoiild neither of such officers 
be present, then by such Member as the Council shall choose as 
their Chairman by the majority of votes. 
33. The Quorum of a Monthlj- or Special Council shall be Quomm. 
five. 
34. At every Monthly Meeting of the Council the Minutes of Oi'''"'' "f I'-s'- 
the previous Monthly and other intervening Meetings shall be first 
read, and postponed matters shall take precedence in the order 
of business of new motions, excepting in the case of a Eeport 
from the Finance Committee, which shall always be taken first 
into consideration, immediately after the Minutes have been read 
and the election of Members and proposal of candidates have 
taken place. 
35. All Minutes or Eeports read at the Coimcil shall be signed SigningMinutes 
by the Chairman. 
36. The Common Seal of the Society shall be kept in a box Common SeaL. 
with three different locks, the keys of which shall be respectively 
held by the President of the Society, the Chairman of the 
Finance Committee, and the Secretary. The Common Seal shall 
not be affixed to any instrument except in the Coimcil-room 
during a Meeting of the Council, unless by their special order. 
37. The Eeports from the Council to the General Meetings in RepoitstoOene 
London, in May and December, shall be prepared at the i^^"^<^''" 
Council-meetings, first in those months, or at some adjournment 
thereof. 
38. The Charter of the Society, Lease of the House, Secretary's Custody of 
Bond of Securitj^ and other important documents belonging to Chaitoi. 
the Society, shall be kept in a box confided to the custody of the 
Society's Bankers, and this box shall not be delivered up by 
them, excepting on a written order signed by the President 
or Chairman of Council Meeting, a Trustee, and the Secretary. 
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