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LAWS OF THE SOCIETY, 
Right of 
\ oting. 
Chair, by 
whom and 
when taken. 
Decision of 
Questions. 
Officers. 
Council. 
Mode of Elec¬ 
tion of Officers 
and Council. 
V. Subscribing Members alone, shall have the right of voting 
at a Meeting. 
VI. The President, if present, shall take the Chair at the 
Meetings; in his absence a Vice-President, and in the ab¬ 
sence of the Vice-Presidents, a Member of the Council. The 
Chair shall be taken as soon after Twelve o’clock, as five 
Members shall have assembled. 
VII. Questions proposed at a Meeting shall be determined 
by a majority of votes ; and if the votes be equal, the Chair¬ 
man shall have a second, or casting vote. 
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SECTION II. 
OFFICERS AND COUNCIL. 
I. A President, six Vice-Presidents, a Treasurer, and 
Secretaries, shall be chosen out of the Subscribing Members, 
every year, at the Annual Meeting, and shall he re-eligible 
from year to year. 
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II. The Affairs of the Society shall he conducted, in con¬ 
formity with the Laws, by these Officers, and a Council con¬ 
sisting of twelve subscribing Members. 
III. Four new Members of the Council shall he chosen 
yearly, out of the Subscribing Members of the Society, at the 
Annual Meeting ; the supernumerary Members of the former 
Council retiring in the order of seniority, (or, where the 
seniority is undetermined, by lot,) and not being re-eligible for 
the current year. 
IV. There shall be laid before each Subscribing Member 
present at the Annual Meeting, a List of all the Subscribing 
Members of the Society, and also a Balloting Paper. On the 
