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a knowledge of acclimatisation amongst the Members and the public. 
And such business generally shall be disposed of as may be brought 
under consideration by the Council or by any Member who shall 
have given seven days’ previous notice thereof to the honorary 
secretary, or as a majority of two-thirds of the members present shall 
see fit to entertain and consider ; and each Member shall have the 
privilege of introducing two friends at such meetings. 
8. The Council shall meet at least once a month, and three Mem- Meetings of 
bers, of whom the President, Vice-President, Treasurer, or Honorary 
Secretary shall be one, shall form a quorum, and be capable of 
transacting tho business of the Council, subject to such limitations 
as may be imposed by any bye-law of the Council, or rule, or reso¬ 
lution of the Society, which may be hereafter made. 
9. The Council shall have the sole management of the affairs of powers & Duties 
the Society, and of the income and property thereof, for the uses, 0 ounu ' 
purposes, and benefit of the Society \ and shall have the sole and 
exclusive right of appointing an Honorary Secretary and Honorary 
Treasurer from amongst themselves or the other Members of the 
Society, and also of appointing paid servants, as a manager or 
assistant-secretary, collector, and such other officers, clerks, and 
labourers, and at such salaries as they may deem necessary, and of 
removing them if they shall think fit, and shall prescribe their respec¬ 
tive duties. And such Council shall have power to consider and deter¬ 
mine all matters, either directly or indirectly affecting the interests of 
the Society, and if they shall think fit so to do, shall bring the 
same under the notice of tho Members of the Society, at any general 
or special meeting ; and to make such bye-laws as they may deem 
necessary for the efficient management of the Affairs and the pro¬ 
motion of the objects of the Society, and for the conduct of the business 
of the Council, provided the same are not repugnant to these rules ; 
to appoint one or more sub-committees, for any purpose contemplated 
by these rules; and generally to perform such acts as may be requisite 
to carry out tho objects of the Society, which bye-laws are to be 
subject to ratification, or emendation, or rejection, by tho next annual 
or special general meeting of the Society. And it shall be the duty 
of the Council to exercise the foregoing powers as occasion shall 
require, and to furnish reports of the proceedings at every periodical 
and annual meeting of the Society. 
10. The Society shall have power to affiliate or associate itself with Branch societies 
other Societies of kindred objects, and to found Branch Societies if ' 
desirable ; and the Council shall have power to carry out any arrange¬ 
ments for this purpose, and to furnish any monthly or other reports. 
