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f). TIic election for the three annual vacancies on the Council, and the 
Judjjes, shali take jjlace every year between the isth November and the 5th 
December. The Secretaries shall ascertain which of the Members are willing 
to stand for election to oflice, 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, showing the offices for which they are respectively seeking election. 
K-.ich 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 December. 
The Scrutineer shall prepare a return of the officers elected, showing the 
number of votes recorded for each Candidate, and send it one of the Secre- 
taries for publication in the Notices to Members for December. The 
Scrutineer shall not reveal to any person how any Member shall have voted. 
In 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 purpose of this rule, any Member 
who habitually buys birds with the intention of selling them again, shall be 
deemed a bird dealer. Before the annual eection of officers, the Secretaries 
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 
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 this rule, shall be final. When a dealer is proposed 
as a Member of this 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. 
g. The Council may appoint an Arbitration Committee, which may 
decide questions at issue between Members, when requested to do so by both 
parties. Any decision of such Committee shall lie final. E.xcept to the extent 
permitted by this rule, the Club and its officers shall decline to concern 
themselves with disputes between Members. 
10. The Council shall have power to alter and add to these Rules, but 
.shall give the members notice of any proposed alteration or addition, and in 
the event of si.x members objecting thereto within fourteen days, the proposed 
alterations or additions shall be sulimitted to the votes of the Members. 
Failing such objection the alteration shall date from its adoption by the 
Council, 
