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15. A Book shall lie on the Library table in which Members 
may insert, for the consideration of the Council, the titles 
of such works as they desire to be purchased for the 
Institute. 
§ IV. Bye-Laws (General, Ordinary, and Intermediate 
Meetings). 
1. A General Meeting of Members and Associates shall be 
held annually on May 24th (being Her Majesty’s birthday, 
and the Society’s anniversary), or on the Monday following, or 
on such other day as the Council may determine as most 
convenient, to receive the Report of the Council on the state 
of the Society, and to deliberate thereon ; and to discuss and 
determine such matters as may be brought forward relative to 
the afFairs of the Society ; also, to elect the Council and Officers 
for the ensuing year. 
2. The Council shall call a Special General Meeting of the 
Members and Associates, when it seems to them necessary, or 
when required to do so by requisition, signed by not less than 
ten Members aud Associates, specifying the question intended 
to be submitted to such Meeting. Two weeks’ notice must 
be given of any such Special General Meeting ; and only the 
subjects of which notice has been given shall be discussed 
thereat. 
3. The Ordinary Meetings of the Society shall usually be 
held on the first and the Intermediate Meetings on the third 
Monday evenings in each month, from November to June 
inclusive, or on such other evenings as the Council may deter- 
mine to be convenient; and a printed card of the Meetings 
for each Session shall be forwarded to each Member and 
Associate. 
4. At the Ordinary and Intermediate Meetings the order of 
proceeding shall be as follows : — The President, or one of the 
Vice-Presidents, or a Member of the Council, shall take the 
chair at 8 o’clock precisely, the minutes of the last Ordinary 
or Intermediate Meeting shall be read aloud by one of the 
Secretaries, and, if found correct, shall be signed by the Chair- 
man ; the presents made to the Society since their last Meeting 
