ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION. 
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Funds of the Institute, exclusive of any sum granted bo the 
Secretary as Correspondent of Imperial Institute, &c., such 
nominated members not to exceed five. All other elections to 
the Board shall be by vote at the Annual General Meeting, 
except as provided in Article 7. 
6. At the first and at each succeeding Annual General 
Meeting of the Institute all the members of the Board shall 
retire, but be eligible for re-election. 
6. In the event of any vacancy occurring in the management, 
the Board shall have power to fill such office until the next 
Annual General Meeting of the Institute. But the Board shall 
have full power to act notwithstanding any vacancy shall not 
have been filled up. 
8. The Board shall meet whenever convenient or necessary 
and shall appoint such committees as it may deem expedient. It 
may associate with such committees any member or members of 
the Institute with full power to act and vote on those Committees. 
9. The Patron or in his absence the President or one of 
the Vice-Presidents, shall preside at all meetings of the Board 
of Management. In the absence of the Patron, President and 
Vice-Presidents the meeting shall elect a Chairman. 
The Patron, President or Chairman of any meeting shall in 
all cases in which the votes are equal have a casting vote in 
addition to his original vote. 
10. At each Annual Meeting the Board shall present a 
Report of its proceedings and a statement of the accounts of the 
Institute, audited, and signed by the President or Vice- Presi- 
dents and Secretary, and in the absence of the President, or Vice- 
President or both, then by the Secretary. 
11. The Board shall have pow'er to appoint such officers as 
way be found necessary for the due conduct of the business of 
