Rules of the Kent Archaeological Society

1. The Society shall consist of Ordinary Members and Honorary Members. 2. The funds, securities, and property of the Society shall be held in Trust for the Members by four Trustees, who sh11ll be Members. Any vacancies shall be filled at the next Annual Meeting. The affairs of the Society shall be conducted by a Council consisting of the President of the Society, the Vice-Presidents, the Honorary Treasurer, the Honorary Secretary, Honorary Librarian, the Honorary Financial Secretary, the Honorary Editors, and twenty-four Members elected out of the general body of the Subscribers : one-fotirth of the latter shall go out annually in rouition, but shall nevertheless be re-eligible; and such retiring and the new election shall take place at the Annual General Meeting: but any intermediate vacancy, by death or retirement, among the elected Council, shall be filled up either at the General Meet.ing or at the next Council Meeting, whichever shall first happen, and the Member so appointed shall hold office so long as he in whose place he shall be appointed would have held office. Five Members of the Council to constitute a quorum. 8. The Council shall meet to transact the business of the Society on the second Thursday in the month of March in Maidstone, in the month of June in London, in the month of September in Rochester, and on some d11y in the month of December in Ounterlmry, and at any other time that the Hono1·a1·y Sec1·etm·y may deem it expedient t.o call them together. But the Oouncil shall havtJ powe1·, if it shall deem it advisable, at the instance of the President, to hold its Meetings at other places within the county; and to alter the days of Meeting, or to omit a Q,uaderly Meeting if it shall lie found convenient. · 4. '1.'he Council shnU appoint one of their Members to be the Hon. FiuilncialSecretm·y. His duty shall be to keep an account of nilS ubscriptions and other Receipts and Payments for the Society, and on the 31st December in every year to prepare the Balance Sheet for the past yenr, and, after it has been approved by the Auditors, to lay it before the next Quarterly MetJting of the Council, accompanied by a Statement of.all Subscriptions, etc., in arrear and dne to the Society, and of all moneys due from them. And the Council a1·e further empowered, at any time wl1en they think it · desirable, to employ and pay a Chartered Accountant to assist the Hon. Financial Seoret.wy in making out such Bnlnnce Sheets and Account. · 5. · At every Meeting of the Society or Council, the President, or, in · his. absence, the Ohau:man, slmll ·have a casting vote, independently of liis · vote as a Member. 6. A Genernl Meeting of the Society shall be held annually, in July, August, or September, at some place rendered interesting by its antiquities or historical associations, in the eastern and western divisions of the county nlternntely, unless the Council, fo1· some cause to be hy them . nssigned, agree to vary this arrangement; the day ancl place of meeting to be appointed by the Council, who shall have the power, at the instance of the President, to elect some Member of the Society connected with the district iu which the meeting shall be held, to act as Chairman of such xiv KENT A.ROH..IEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. Meeting. At tl1e said Genel'al Meeting,' antiquities shall be exhibited, and papers read on subjects of al'clueological intel'est. The accounts of the Society, having been previously allowed by the Auditors, shall be presented; the Council, through the Secretary, shall make a Report on the st.ate of the Society; and the Auditors and the six new Members of the Council for the ensuing year shall be elected. 7. The Annual General Meeting shall have power to make such alterations in the Rules as the majority of Members present may approve: provided that notice of any contemplated alterations be given, in writing, Lo the Honornry Secretary, before June the 1st in the then eur1·ent year, to be laid by him before the Council at their next Meeting; provided, also, that the said contemplated alterations be specifically set out in the notices summoning the 'Meeting, at least one month before the day appointed for it. 8. A Special General Meeting may be summoned, 011 the written requisition of seven Members, or of the President, or two Vice-Presidents, which must specify the subject intended to be brought forward at such Meeting; and such subject alone can then be considered. 9. Candidates for admission must he proposed by one Mem her of the Society, and seconded by another, and be balloted for, if required, at any Meeting cf the Couucil, or at a Geneml Meeting, one black ball in five to exclude. 10. Each Ordinary Member s1iall pay an Annual Subscription of 'l'en Shillings, due in advance on the 1st of January in each year; or £10 may i\t any time be paid in lieu of futm-e subscriptions, as a composiLion for life, provi