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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, a voting paper 
containing a list of all such members, shovi^ing the offices for which they are 
respectively seeking election. 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 the 5th of December, i'he Scrutineer shall prepare a return 
of the officers elected, showing the number of votes recorded 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 person 
how any member shall have voted, f n the event of an equality of votes 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 puri)ose of this rule, any member 
who habitually buys birds with the intention of selling them agani shall be 
deemed a dealer in birds. Before the annual election of officers, the Secre- 
taries shall submit to the Council the list of members willing to stand for 
election to the Secretaryship, the Treasurership, and the Council ; and the 
Council ishall 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 Coun- 
cil shall delegate its power under this rule, shall be ffiial. When a dealer is 
proposed as a member of the Club, the fact of his being a dealer shall be 
stated in the Notices to Members. 
8. It shall be lawful for the Council to delegate any of its powers to 
a Committee. 
y. The Council may appoint an Arbitration Committee, which may 
decide questions at issue between members and associates when requested to 
do so by both parties. Any decision of such Committee shall be linal. 
Except to the extent permitted by this rule, the Club and its officers shall 
decline to concern themselves with disputes between memoers. 
10. The Council shall have power to alter and add to these Kuies, but 
shall give to the members notice of any proposed alteration or addition, and 
in the event of six members objecting thereto within fourteen days the pro- 
posed alterations or addition shall be submitted to the votes of the members. 
Failing such objection the alteration or addition shall date from its adoption 
by the Council. 
11. The Council shall have power to expel any member or associate 
at any time. 
12. Neither the office of Scrutineer nor that of Auditor shall be held 
for two consecutive years by the same person. The Scrutineer shall not be 
a candidate at any election at which he acts as Scrutineer. 
13. If any office becomes vacant at any time other than the end of 
the cmieut year of the Club, the Council shall have power to anoint any 
member to tili the vacancy. 
14. The decision of the majority of the Council shall be final and 
binding on the Club, but a resolution passed by the Council shall not be 
acted upon unless there be an absolute majority of the Council (and not 
merely of those voting) in its favour. 
