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shall be transacted at any other general meeting of the 
members of the body politic and corporate unless ten 
or more members shall be present ; and every annual 
or other general meeting may adjourn to such time as 
the original meeting or any adjournment thereof shall 
think proper; and every adjourned meeting shall be 
considered a continuance of the meeting from which 
the adjournment took place, and no business shall be 
transacted at any adjourned meeting except the 
business left unfinished at the general meeting from 
•which the adjournment took place: AND WE DO 
HEREBY FURTHER DIRECT AND DECLARE, 
That with the exception of the persons to be elected 
at the first general meeting of the members of the said 
body politic and corporate as hereinbefore is mentioned, 
and of the person hereinbefore appointed the first pre- 
sident of the said body politic and corporate, and of 
the persons who shall be appointed presidents and 
vice-presidents as hereinafter directed, and of the 
persons who shall be appointed temporary mem- 
bers of the council as hereinafter also is mentioned, 
the members of the council shall be elected at the 
annual general meetings, and that the president and 
vice-presidents shall be ex-officio members of the 
council ; and that on the day on which the annual 
general meeting in the month of May, one thousand 
eight hundred and forty-five, and on the day on which 
the annual general meeting shall be held in every sub- 
sequent year, the president and vice-presidents and six 
members of the council and also the secretary shall 
go out of office, but any president or vice-presidents 
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