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Membership. 
Property- 
vest in 
the Council 
Executive 
Officers. 
Council. 
Vacancy in 
Council, 
ho-w sup- 
plied. 
2. A Subscriber of one guinea or upwards annually, 
which shall be payable in the month of January, shall be a 
Member of the Society j and contributors within one year 
of ten guineas or upwards shall be Life Members of the 
Society ; and any person who may render special services 
to the Society, by contribution of stock or otherwise, shall 
be eligible for life membership, and may be elected as such 
by the Council, or by any annual general meeting. 
3. All the property of the Society shall vest in the 
Council for the time being, for the use, purposes, and 
benefit of the Society. 
4. The Society shall be governed by a Council of 
eighteen Members, to include a President, two Vice-Presi- 
dents, and an Honorary Treasurer, who, with three other 
Members (viz., those who have attended the fewest meet- 
ing of the Council proportionately since their appointment) 
shall retire annually, but shall be eligible for re-election, 
subject to Pule 11. Provided that if any sum of money be 
voted to the Society by Act of Parliament, or trusts con- 
ferred upon the Council by the Government, then it shall 
be lawful for the Chief Secretary for the time being to 
appoint, if he consider it expedient, any number of gentle- 
men, not exceeding three, to act as members of the 
Council, and they shall have all the privileges as if other- 
wise duly elected, 
5. In case of a vacancy occurring by the death, resig- 
nation, or non-attendance of any member of the Council 
for a period of two months, without leave of the Council, 
the remaining Members shall, in due course, appoint 
another Member of the Society to be a Member of the 
Council in the place and stead of the Member who shall 
so resign or absent himself ; but such'new Member shall be 
nominated at an ordinary meeting of the Council prior to 
the meeting at which he is elected. 
