406 PROPOSED BYE-LAWS OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY. 
Council, according to the provisions of the Statute, 1852, 
as amended by the Act, 1868. 
2. A copy of the Bye-laws shall be given to every Member 
and Associate of the Society on his election, and shall at 
any time be delivered to any Member, Associate, Appren¬ 
tice or Student of the Society on his applying for the 
the same, and paying one shilling. 
SECTION V. 
ELECTION OF COUNCIL AND AUDITORS. 
Charter, 
lines 148, 
163. 
Stat. 1853, 
see. ; 
Act, 1868, 
sec. xix. 
Charter, 
line 153, and 
Act 1868, 
sec. xix. 
1. Two-thirds of the Members of Council shall go out of 
office in every year according to the provisions of the 
Charter ; seven of them shall consist of those Members 
who remained in the Council after the lot was taken in 
the last preceding year, or their representatives ; the other 
seven shall be taken by lot from the remaining fourteen 
Members. 
2. The retiring Members of the Council shall be ascertained 
and determined at the monthly meeting held in February 
of every year, and the names shall be advertised on or 
before the 10th day of March in every year. 
3. Any person qualified to vote desirous of nominating any 
Member for election as a Member of the Council or as an 
Auditor, shall give notice in writing with the name and 
address of the nominee, and if for the Council disclosing 
wdiether such nominee be or not a Pharmaceutical Che¬ 
mist, to the Secretary of the Society, on or before the 24th 
day of March in every year, and the Secretary shall on or 
before the 26th day of March then instant address and 
send by post to each nominee a notice of his having been 
so nominated, and inquiring whether he will accept office 
if elected, and in default of a written reply from such 
nominee, declaring his readiness to accept office if elected 
being received on or before the 31st day of March then 
instant, such nominee shall not be deemed eligible or 
willing to be elected. 
4. The Council shall at their monthly meeting, held in April 
of every year, prepare a list of all persons nominated for 
election and eligible and willing to be elected Members of 
the Council and Auditors for the ensuing year, and dis¬ 
closing the qualifications of nominees for the Council; 
and in default of the nomination of a sufficient number of 
persons eligible and willing to accept office, the Council 
shall nominate as many as may be required to form a com¬ 
plete list of eligible and willing persons to fill all the 
vacancies in the Council, and a complete list of five Au¬ 
ditors. No nominations shall be received or made after 
the 24th day of March, except such as may be made by 
