Rules of the Kent Archaeological Society

l. 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 shall be Members. Any vacancies shall be filled at the next Annual Meeting. The affairs of the Society sl111ll be conducted by a Council consisLing of the President of the Society, the Vice-Preside11ts, the Honorary Treasurer, the Honomry Secretary,. Honorary Librarian, the Honorary Financial Secretary, tlie Honornry Editors, and twenty-four Members elected out of the general body of the Subscribers : one-fonrth of the latter shall go out annually in rotation, but slrnll 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 Meeting or at the next Council Meeting, whiche\'er shall fil'st happen, and tl1e Member so appointed shall hold office so long as he in whose place he shall be appointed ll'ould lull'e held office. Five Members of the Council to constitute a qnomm. 8, The Council shall meet to transact the business of the Society on tl1e second Thursday in the month of Mai·ch in Maidstone, in the month of June in London, in the month of September in Rochester, and on s0me day in t.he month of December in Canterbury, and at any other time thnt the Honorary Secretary m!ly deem it expedient to call them together. But the Council shall harn power, if it shall deem it advisable, at the insl!lnce of the President, to hold its Meetings at othel' places witl1in the county; aud to alter tl1e days of Meeting, or to omit a Quarterly Meeting if it shall he found convenient. 4. The Council sh!lll appoint one of their Members to be the Hon. Financial Secretary. His duty shall be Lo keep an account of all Subscriptions nncl other Receipts and Payments for the Society, and on the 31st December in every year to prepare the Balance Sheet for the past year, and, after it has been' approved by the Auditors, to lay it before the next Quarterly Meeting of the Council, accompanied by a Statement of all Subscriptions, etc., in arrear and rlue to the Society, and of all moneys due from them. And the Council are further empowered, at any time when they think it desirable, to employ and pay a Chartered Accountant to assist the Hon. Financial Secretary in m11king out such Balance Sheets and Account. 5. At every Meeting of tl1e Society or Council, the President, or, in his absence, tl1e Chairman, sl1all lrnve a casting vote, independently of his vote as a Member. 6. A General Meeting of the Society shall be held annually, in July, August, or September, at some place rendered interesting by its antiquities or historical nssociations, in the eastem and western divisions of the county alternntely, unless the Council, for some cause to be by them ussigncd, agree to vary this arrnngement; the day and place of meeting to he appointed by the Council, who shall bnve 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 Chnirman of such xiv KENT ARCHJEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. Meetina. At, the said General Meeting, untiquities shall be exhibited, and pnpers rend on subjects of archreological interest. Th_e accounts of the Society, having been previously allowed by the Auditors, slrnll be presented; the Council, through the Sccretm·y, shnll make a Report on tlte state of the Society; and the Auditors and the six new Members of the Council fol' the ensuing yeal' shall be elected. 7. The Annuul General Meeting shull have power to make such alterations in the Rules as the majority of Members present mny approve: provided that notice of any contemplated alterations be given, in writing, to the Honorary Secretary, before June the 1st in the then cunent 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 tl1e notices summoning the Meeting, at lenst one month before the clny appointed for it. 8. A Special General Meeling may be summoned, on the written requisition of seven Members, or of the President, or two Vice-l'residents, which must specify the subject inten