192 THE ROYAL CHARTER OF INCORPORATION 
out of office shall be the six who shall have been long- 
est in office ; and that on the day on which the annual 
general meeting shall be held in the month of May 
one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, and in 
every subsequent year, six new members of the council 
shall be elected, and that the members of the council 
for the time being going out of office shall be consi- 
dered to be re-eligible to that office, either immediately 
or at any time afterwards ; and that upon any vacancy 
in the office of member of the council from any cause 
except that of going out by rotation, the same shall be 
filled up at the first annual general meeting of the 
members of the body politic and corporate which shall 
be held after the vacancy shall have occurred, and the 
council may, if it shall be deemed advisable, appoint 
some person to fill that vacancy until the day on which 
the first annual general meeting after the vacancy shall 
have occurred shall be held, and every person so ap- 
pointed by the council shall cease to be a member of 
the council on the day on which such annual general 
meeting shall be held, and the vacancy shall be filled 
up at such annual general meeting to all intents and 
purposes as if the council had not appointed any one 
to fill that vacancy : Provided, nevertheless, that in 
case any person shall cease to be a member of the 
council before the day on which the annual general 
meeting in the month of May in any year shall be held, 
at which he would have been one of the members to 
have gone out of office, then such vacancy shall not 
be filled up, but such person shall be considered as 
one of the members for the time being going out of 
office on that day ; and that in case any occasional 
