Rules of the Avicultural Society



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Rules of the Avicultural Society


As amended, November , 1930



1. —The name of the Society shall be The Avicultural Society, and its

object shall be the study of Foreign and British Birds in freedom and in captivity.

Poultry, Pigeons, and Canaries shall be outside the scope of the Society. The

year of the Society, with that of each volume of the Society’s Magazine, which

shall be known as the Avicultural Magazine, shall commence with the month

of January and end on the 31st of December following.


2. —The Avicultural Society shall consist of Ordinary and Honorary

Members, and the latter shall be restricted in number to six, and be elected by the

Council.


3. —The Officers of the Society shall be elected, annually if necessary, by

members of the Council in the manner hereinafter provided, and shall consist of

a President, one or more Vice-Presidents, a Secretary, an Editor, a Treasurer,

an Auditor, a Scrutineer, and a Council of eighteen members. The Secretary,

Editor, and Treasurer shall be ex officio Members of the Council.


4. —New Members shall be proposed in writing, and the name and address of

every person thus proposed, with the name of the Member proposing him, shall be

published in the next issue of the Magazine. Unless the candidate shall, within two

weeks after the publication of his name in the Magazine, be objected to by at least

two Members, he shall be deemed to be duly elected. If five members shall lodge

with the Secretary objections to any candidate he shall not be elected, but

the signatures to the signed objections must be verified by the Scrutineer. If

two or more Members shall object to any candidate, the name of such candidate

shall be brought before the Council at their next meeting, and the Council shall

have power to elect or to disqualify him from election.


5. —Each Member shall pay an annual subscription of £1, to be due and

payable in advance on the 1st of January in each year. New Members shall pay,

in addition, an entrance fee of 10s. ; and, on payment of their entrance fee and

subscription, they shall be entitled to receive all the numbers of the Society’s

Magazine for the current year.


6. —Members intending to resign their membership at the end of the

current year of the Society are expected to give notice to the Secretary before the

1st of December, so that their names may not be included in the “ List of

Members ”, which shall be published annually in the January number of the

Magazine.



