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PROCEEDINGS OF THE VICTORIA INSTITUTE. 
MEETINGS OF THE INSTITUTE. 
21. There shall be an Annual General Meeting on such day 
in each year, as the Board shall from time to time determine, to 
(a.) Receive the Report of the Board of Management ; 
(ft.) Receive the statement of accounts ; 
(c.) Elect the Board of Management for ensuing year ; 
(d.) Consider, and if necessary take action, with reference to 
any business or motion of which due notice may have 
been given, not being inconsistent with the Memoran- 
dum and Articles of Association. 
22. Special Meetings shall be convened by the Secretary (1) 
whenever he may be instructed by the Board so to do, and 
(2) on the requisition in writing of not fewer than six members 
of the Institute. The requisition and notices shall state the 
object of the meeting, and no other business shall be entertained. 
23. Meetings of the Institute shall be presided over by the 
Patron, President or Vice-President. In their absence the mem- 
bers present shall elect a Chairman, who shall on all occasions, 
have an additional or casting vote. Seven members shall form a 
quorum. 
24. No less than seven days’ notice of each meeting and its 
objects shall be given to members in writing unless in cases of 
special urgency, the necessity for which to be determined by the 
Board. 
^.5. Questions shall be determined by the majority of mem- 
bers present and voting, unless a poll be demanded in writing 
and signed by six of the members present, in which case a poll 
shall be taken of the whole Institute. 
26. A poll of the whole Institute shall be taken by means 
of \ oting papers, sent to all members entitled to vote, by post, 
to their registered addresses, and stating the question to be voted 
upon, and the time, to be fixed by the Chairman of the meeting, 
