Rules of the Avicultural Society



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7. —The Magazine of the Society shall be issued on or about the first day of

every month, and forwarded, post free, to all the Members who shall have paid

their subscriptions for the year ; but no Magazine shall be sent or delivered to any

Member until the annual subscription shall have reached the hands of the Business

Secretary or the Publishers. Members whose subscriptions shall not have been

paid as above by the first day in November in any year shall cease to be Members

of the Society, but may be re-admitted, at the discretion of the Council, on payment

of the annual subscription.


8. —The Secretary, Editor, and Treasurer shall be elected for a term of five

years, and, should a vacancy occur, it may be temporarily filled up by the

Executive Committee (see Rule 10). At the expiration of the term of five years in

every case it shall be competent for the Council to nominate the same officer, or

another Member, for a further term of five years, unless a second candidate be

proposed by not less than twenty-five Members of at least two years’ standing, as

set forth below.


In the November number of the Magazine preceding the retirement from

office of the Secretary, Editor, or Treasurer, the Council shall publish the names

of those members whom they have nominated to fill the vacancies thus created ;

and these members shall be deemed duly elected unless another candidate or

candidates be proposed by not less than fifteen Members of at least two years’

standing. Such proposal, duly seconded and containing the written consent of the

nominee to serve, if elected, in the capacity for which he is proposed, must reach

the Secretary on or before the 15th of November.


The Council shall also publish yearly in the November number of the

Magazine the names of those members nominated by them for the posts of

Auditor and Scrutineer respectively.


9. —The Members of the Council shall retire by rotation, two at the end of

each year of the Society (unless a vacancy or vacancies shall occur otherwise) and

two other Members of the Society shall be recommended by the Council to take

the place of those retiring. The names of the two Members recommended shall

be printed in the November number of the Avicultural Magazine. Should the

Council’s selection be objected to by fifteen or more Members, these shall have

power to put forward two other candidates, whose names, together with the

signatures of no less than fifteen Members proposing them, must reach the

Hon. Secretary by the 15th of November. The names of the four candidates will

then be printed on a voting paper and sent to each Member with the December

number of the Magazine, and the result of the voting published in the January

issue. Should no alternative candidates be put forward, in the manner and by the

date above specified, the two candidates recommended by the Council shall be

deemed to have been duly elected. In the event of an equality of votes the

President shall have a casting vote.



