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The Chairman : I am not quite sure I know what this means. 
General Maurice ; There are a good many people at the Ordnance 
College and other places who are temporarily connected with it and it 
will leave a discretion to the Committee. There is nothing mandatory 
about the amendment, it is only permissive. 
The amendment was agreed to. 
Rule IV. as it now stands :— 
IV. Any member who, whilst serving on full pay, shall cease to 
belong to the Royal Artillery Institution, either by resignation or 
otherwise, shall not again be eligible for admission, without paying all 
arrears of annual subscription since the date of his last payment. 
Proposed amendment:— 
For “ Shall not again be eligible .... his last payment ” 
read “ shall be eligible for re-admission on payment of another entrance 
subscription of £1.’ 3 
General Maurice : There are a good many officers who would rejoin 
the Institution, who have withdrawn from it in their early days, and 
it was strongly recommended to us by our new Secretary that we 
should relax the rule, as practically a good many officers were kept 
out by having to pay up a long series of arrears. It has hitherto been 
obligatory upon everybody who rejoined to pay up all arrears and a 
good many officers are kept out by it. The amendment will merely 
make it rather easier to let officers in agaiu who are desirous of 
coming in. 
The Secretary: I have a list of officers whom I know of my own 
knowledge are willing to rejoin the Institution if the prohibitive con¬ 
ditions in Rule IV. as it now stands were withdrawn ; in fact one or 
two have already rejoined in anticipation of this amendment being 
passed. There are some who would have had to pay up twenty years 
of back subscriptions under the present rule, which is so prohibitive 
that it makes it out of the question for any ex-member whose name 
has been off the books for any length of time to rejoin. I have no 
doubt if this amendment is carried it will have the effect of largely 
increasing our subscription list. 
The amendment was agreed to. 
Rule V. as it now stands:— 
H.R.H. the Commander-in-Chief, Colonel of the Royal Artillery, to 
be Patron and President of the Institution. 
The General Officer Commanding Woolwich District, the Director 
of Artillery, the Deputy-Adjutant-General, R.A., and such other 
officers as may be specially elected at a general meeting to be Vice- 
Presidents. The affairs of the Institution to be under the direction of 
a Committee, consisting of the above officers, the Assistant-Adjutant- 
General, R.A., the Director of Artillery College, the Assistant- 
Adjutant-General, Woolwich, the Secretary, Ordnance Committee, and 
fifteen officers elected at the annual general meeting, of whom four 
shall be Colonels or Lieut.-Colonels, the senior to take the chair. 
Any member of the Committee doing regimental duty, and uot 
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