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vacancy or vacancies in the office of member of the 
council shall be to be filled up at any annual general 
meeting, then and in such case the annual general 
meeting shall elect such number of persons to the office 
of members of the council as shall be sufficient to make 
up the number of members of the council to twenty- 
four, exclusive of ex-officio members, without specify- 
ing which of the persons so elected shall supply the 
occasional vacancy or vacancies to be filled up, or 
which of them shall fill up the vacancies occasioned 
by going out of office annually by rotation ; and imme- 
diately after such election the person in the chair at 
such annual general meeting shall determine by lot 
which of the persons elected shall supply the occa- 
sional vacancy or vacancies to be filled up at such 
annual general meeting, and which of them shall supply 
the place of the person, or of each of the persons, who 
shall have occasioned such occasional vacancy or va- 
cancies, and shall forthwith declare the person or per- 
sons so determined upon elected accordingly, and the 
other persons elected at such annual general meeting 
shall thereupon be declared by the person in the chair 
at such annual general meeting elected to supply the 
vacancies occasioned by going out annually by rotation ; 
and that every person who in consequence of an occa- 
sional vacancy shall be elected a member of the council 
shall be only a substitute for the person whose place 
he may supply, and shall continue in office only for 
the same period as the person whose place he may 
supply would have continued if he had not vacated the 
office before the time at which he must necessarily 
have gone out of office ; and that at every annual ge- 
