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Subscrip¬ 
tions. 
Property 1 
vest in 
Trustees 
Executive 
Officers. 
Council. 
Vacancy in 
Council, 
how sup¬ 
plied. 
eligible for life membership, and may be elected as such by 
the Council, or by any annual general meeting. 
3. The annual subscription shall be payable on the 1st 
day of September in each year, and may be received by any 
Member of the Council, or the Collector, either of whom on 
receiving the same shall cause the person so subscribing to be 
enrolled a member accordingly. 
, 4. All the property of the Society, of what nature and 
kind soever, shall vest in Trustees to be appointed by the 
Council, for the use, purposes, and benefit of the Society. 
5. The Society shall be governed by a Council of eighteen 
Members, to include a President, two Vice-Presidents, and an 
Honorary Treasurer, three of whom (viz., those who have 
attended the fewest Meetings of the Council proportionately 
since their appointment) shall retire annually, but shall be 
eligible for re-election. Provided that if any sum of money 
be voted to the Society by Act of Parliament, or trusts con¬ 
ferred upon the Council by the Government, then it shall be 
lawful for the Chief Secretary for the time being to appoint, 
if he consider it expedient, any number of gentlemen, not 
exceeding three, to act as Members of the Council, and they 
shall have all the privileges as if otherwise duly elected ; and 
further, to appoint one Co-Trustee, to act in conjunction with 
the Trustees for the time being of the Society. And provided 
further, that if the Melbourne Corporation, or any of the ad¬ 
jacent municipalities, shall decide upon expending any sum 
of money exceeding £100 in any one year, upon the grounds 
or for the objects of the Society, the Mayor of Melbourne or 
Chairman of such municipality shall be for such year a 
Member of the Council, and be at liberty to act in every 
respect as an ordinaiy member. 
G. In case of a vacancy occurring by the death, resignation, 
or non-attendance of any Member of Council for the period of 
two months, the remaining Members may appoint another 
Member of the Society to be a Member of the Council in the 
place and stead of the deceased, or resigned, or absenting 
Member, and such new Member may act until the next annual 
general meeting. Provided that such vacancy shall not be 
supplied by the Council except after seven days’ notice given 
