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PRESENT AND PROPOSED BYE-LAWS. 
opened by, or in the presence of the 
Chairman. 
8. The Chairman at any meeting for 
the election of Members of the Council 
or Auditors, shall have the power of ad¬ 
journing such Meeting from time to time, 
with a view to the reception of the re¬ 
port of the Scrutineers, but no such ad¬ 
journment shall extend beyond a period 
of four days. 
of an equality of votes, the Chairman of Charter, 
the Meeting shall have a second or cast- line 
ing vote. 
10. It being provided by Section 19 of Act 1868, 
the Act, 1868, that the Council shall not 8ec ’ xix * 
at any time contain more than seven 
Members who are not on the Register of 
Pharmaceutical Chemists. The Scruti¬ 
neers shall, after the voting on any elec¬ 
tion of Members of the Council, certify 
to the Chairman of the Meeting whether 
or not the number of Members not on 
the Register of Pharmaceutical Chemists 
nominated for election is more than seven, 
or more than may with any like Mem¬ 
bers remaining on the Council make up 
the number of seven; and if they shall 
certify that the number of Members not 
on the Register of Pharmaceutical Che¬ 
mists nominated for election is more than 
seven, or more than may as aforesaid 
make up the number of seven, then they 
shall further likewise certify the number 
of votes given in favour of each of such 
Members so nominated, and which of such 
Members so nominated to the number of 
seven or the lesser number, sufficient to 
make up as aforesaid the number of seven, 
have a majority of votes over the remain¬ 
der of such Members, and that such of 
the said Members as have not the said 
majority are in a minority of their class. 
11. The Scrutineers shall make to the 
Chairman a return, signed by them of 
the names of the Members nominated for 
election, but in the case of an election of 
Members of the Council, such return 
shall be exclusive of the names of such, 
if any, Members not being Pharmaceu¬ 
tical Chemists as may be certified to be 
in a minority of their class, and the said 
return shall disclose the number of votes 
given for each Member named therein. 
12. The Chairman of the Meeting shall 
declare the result of every election; and, 
in cases where there shall have been a 
poll, shall declare the election to have 
fallen on the Members who, according 
to the return of the Scrutineers contem¬ 
plated by the last-preceding Bye-law, 
shall appear to have a majority. 
13. The Chairman at any Meeting for 
the election of Members of the Council 
or Auditors, shall have the power of ad¬ 
journing such Meeting from time to time, 
with a view to the reception of the Re¬ 
port of the Scrutineers, but no such ad¬ 
journment shall extend beyond a period 
of four days. 
