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3. New Members shall lie proposed in \niting- by a member 
of the Club; and the name and address of every person thus pro- 
IK)sed, with the name of the pei'son proposing him, shall be Dublished 
in the Notices to Members. Unless the candidate shall, wilhin four- 
teen days after the publication of his name, be objected to by at 
least two members, he shall be duly elected. If two or more mem- 
bers shall lodge with either of the Secretaries objections to any candi- 
date, he shall not be elected, but the signature to the signed- obiec- 
jcctions must be veiified by the Scrutineer. The Secre.ai ies and " the 
Scrutineer shall not disclose the names of the objectors. 
4. Any moraber wishing to resign at the end of the current 
year of the Club shall give notice of his intention to one oT the 
Secretaries before the ,31st of December, and in default of such 
notice he shall be Vahl'. 1o the folloidng year's suhsrriplion. 
5. The Officers of the Club shall be e'ected from the mem- 
bers, and shall consist of a President, one or more Vice-presidents, 
an Auditor, a Scrutineer, one or more Secretaries, a Treasurer, a 
Veterinary Surgeon, and a Council of Eighteen members, and such 
number ot Judges as shall from time to time be determined by the 
Coimcil. The Editor, Secre!aries, Treasurer, and Veteiiiiary Suigeon 
shall be ex-officio members of the Council. Three Members of the 
Council retire annually by seiiio i'y. but are eligible for re-election. 
The Editor, Secretaries, and Trea-urer shall lie elected trieniaJly. 
The Council and Judges shall be elected in a manner hereinafter pro- 
vided. The other officers shall be elected annually at a meeting of 
the Council, immediately after <heir own election. 
6. The election for the three annual vacancies on the 
Council, ana the Judges, shall take place every year between the 
15tli of November and the .5th of December. The Secretaries shall 
ascertain which of the members are wijling to stand for election to 
office, and shall send to each member of the Club or about the loth 
of November a voting pai>er containing a list of all such members, 
showing the offices for which they are lespectively seeking ele.-tion. 
Each member shall make a (X) opposite the names of those for 
whom he desires to vote, and shall sign the paper at the foot, and 
send it in a sealed envelope to the Scrutineer, so that he may receive 
it before 5th of December. The Scrutineer shall prepare a return 
of the officers elected, .showing the numljer of votes recoi'ded for each 
candidate, and send it to one of the Secretaries for publication in 
the Notices to Members for December. The Scrutineer shall not 
reveal to any pei'son how any member shall have voted. In the event 
of an equality of vo.es the President shall have a casting vote. 
7. Dealers in birds shall not be eligible for election to any 
office in the Club, except that of Judge. For the purpose of this 
rule,, any membei- who habitually buys birds with the intention of 
selling them again, shall be deemed a bird deal r. Before the annual 
election of officers, the Secretaries shall submit to the Council the 
list of taeanbers willing to stand for election to the Secretaryship, 
the Tieasurership, and the Council; and the Council shall remove 
from the list the name of any candidate who shall be, in the opinion 
of the Council, a dealer in birds, within the meaning of this rule. 
The decision of the Council or of any Committee to whom the Council 
shall delegate its power under tiiis rule, shall be final. When a 
dealer is proposed as a member of the Club, the fact of Jiis being 
a dealer stiall be stated in the Notices to Members. 
8. It shall be lawful for the Council to delegate any of 
its powders to a Committee. 
