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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, a voting paper containing a list of all such 
members, showing 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 5th December. 
The 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 Secre- 
taries for publication in the Notices to Membci's for Decemljer. The 
Scrutineer shall not reveal to any i)erson how any Member shall have voted. 
In the event of an equality of voles 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. 15efore the annual election of officers, the Secretaries 
shall submit to the Council the hst of Members willing to stand for election 
'o 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. 
9. The Council may appoint an Arbitration Conniiittee, which may 
decide questions at issue between Members, when requested to do so by both 
parties. Any decision of such Committee shall be final. Except 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 six members objecting thereto within fourteen days, the proposed 
alterations or additions shall be submitted to the votes of the Members. 
Failing such objection the alteration shall date from its adoption by the 
Council. 
11. The Council shall have power to expel any member 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. 
