l. The Society slrnll consist of Ordin11ry Members 11nd Honornry
Members.
2. '!'he funds, securities, and property of the Society slrnll he held in
Trust for the Members bv four Trustees, who shall be Members. Any
vacancies shall be filled at the next Annual Meeting. The affairs of the
Society slrnll be conducted by II Council consisting of the President of
the Society, the Honorary Finant,ial Secretary, the Vice-Presidents, the
H onon\l'y Trensurer, the Honorary Secretal'y, the Honorary Editors, and
twenty-four Membe1·s elected out of the general body of the Subscribers:
one-fourth of the latter shall go out annually in rotation, 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 c.le11th or retirement, among the elected Council, shall be filled up
either at the General Meeting 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 be shall be appointed would have held office.
Five Members of the Conncil to constitute a qnol'um.
3. .The Council shall meet to tt·imsact the business of the Society on
I.he second Thursday in the month of Mm·ch in Maidstone, in the month
of June in London, in the month of September in Rochestei·, and in the
month of December in Canterbury, and at any other time that the
Secretary may deem it expedient to call them together. But the Council
shall hani power, 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 Quarterly Meeting if it shall be
found convenient.
4. The Council shall appoint one of their Members to be the Hon.
Treasurer. His duty shall be to keep an account of all Subscriptions
nnd other Receipts and Payments for the Society, and on the 31 st Decembe1·
in every year to prepare the Balance Sheet for the p11st year, and, after it
has been approved by the Auditors,. to lay it before the next Quartel'ly
Meeting 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 are further empowered, at any time when they tl1ink it
desirable, to employ and pay a Chartered Accountant to assist the Hon.
Treasure1· in making out such Balance Sheets and Account.
5. At every Meeting of the Society or Council, the President, or, in
his absence, the Chairman, shall have a cnsting vote, independently of his
vote as a Membe1-.
6. A General Meeting of the Society shall be held annually, in .Tuly,
Augst, r Septemer1 at soe place rendered interesting by its antiquities
or lnstoncnl nssocmtions, in the eastern and westem clivisions of the
county alternately, unless the Council, for some cnuse to be hy them
assigned, agree to vary this arrangement; the dny nncl place of meeting
to be appointed by the Council, who shall have the power, at the instance of
te reident: to elect sme Member of the Society connected with the
d1str1ct m which the meetmg shall be held, to act a 0hahmnn of such
Meeting. At thti :,mid G:enen1l :(\l.leetin, 11ntiquities shi\H btl eichii}ied1
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and papers re11d on subjects of rcbreological interest. 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 state of the Society; and the Auditors and the six new Mem hers of
the Council for the ensuing year shall be elected.
7. The Annual General Meeting shall have power to make such
nlterations in the Rules as the m11jority of Members present may approve:
provided that notice of any contemplated alterations be given, in writing,
to the Honorary Secretary, before June the 1st in the then current year,
to be laid by him before the Council at their next Meeting; provided,
also, that the Sllid contemplated alterations be specifically set out in the
notices summoning the Meeting, at least one month before the day
appointed for it.
S. 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; irnd such subject alone can then be considered.
9. Candidates for admission must he proposed by one Member of the
Society, and seconded by nnother, and be balloted for, if required, at nny
Meeting of the Council, or at a General Meeting, one black ball in five to
exclude.
10. Ench Or
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