10 
RULES. 
1. The objects of " The i^'oKE^^iN Bikd-Cluh" shall be the mutual 
eiicounigeuieiit aud assistance of the members and associates in the keeping, 
breednig, and exhibiting of Foreign liirds, and the improvement of Shows 
in regard to them. 
•2. The club shall be composed of members and associates. Every 
member shall pay an entrance fee of 2/6 and an annual subscription of 10-. 
ij^very associate sliall pay an euLiance lee of 2/6 and an annual subscription 
of £)/-. Associates shall have such ot the privileges ot members as the Council 
shall J^rom lime to time direct, ouusciiptions shall be due and payable in 
advance on tlie 1st of January in each year, it any member's or associate's 
suliscriptions shall be mope llian tluee months overdue he shall be suspended 
from all the beuehts of the Club, and if more than nine months overdue, 
notice of his having ceased to be a member or associate of the Club, and of 
the cause, may be published in the iSotices to Members ; and on such notice 
being puolisiied no shalli cease to be a member or associate accordingly, but 
his liability for overdue subscriptions shall continue. 
3. New members shall be proposed in writing by a member of the 
Club aud new associates by either a member or an associate ; and the name 
and addi-ess of every person thus pioposed, with the name of the person 
proposing him, shall be published in the iN'otices to Members. Unless the 
candidate shall, within fourteen days after the publication of his name, be 
objected to by at least two members, he shall be duly elected, if two or 
more members lodge with either of the Ciecretaries objections to any candi- 
date he shall not be elected, but the signatm-e to the signed objections must 
be verihed by the Sciutineer. I'he Secietaries and the Sci'utineer shall not 
disclose the names of the objectors. Associates desu-ous to become members 
shall go througli the same form of election as other candidates but shall not 
pay an entrance fee. 
4. Any member or associate wishing to resign at the end of the 
current year ot the Club shall give notice of his intentiou to one of the 
Secretaries before the 31st of December, and in default of such notice he 
shall be liable to the following year's subscription. 
5. The officers of the Club shall be elected from the members and 
shall consist of a President, one or moie Vice-Presidents, an Auditor, a 
Scrutineer, one or more Secretaries, a i'leasmer, a Council of twelve 
members, and such number ol judges as shall from time to time be 
detei'mined by the Council. The Secretaiy or Secretaries and the Treasurer 
shall be ex-officio members of the Council. The Secretary or Secretaries 
and i'reasurer shall be elected triennially. The Council and the J udges 
shall be elected annually by the members in manner hereinafter provided. 
The other officers shall be elected annually at a meeting of the Council 
immediately after their own election. 
6. The election of the Council and J udges shall take place every year 
between the 15th of November and the 5th of December. The Secretaries 
shall ascertain which of the members are willing to stand for election to 
office, and shall send to each member of the Club, on or about the 15th of 
November and the 5th of December. The Secretaries shall ascertain wliicii 
