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Retirement
of Officers.
Librarian, and twenty-five other Members, all of whom
must be ordinary Members of the Club; five to form a
quorum. The President shall nominate four Members of
the Council to act as Vice-Presidents during his year of
office. The President, Treasurer, Secretary, Librarian, and
those four of the other Members of the Council who shall
have been longest in office (reckoning from their original
appointment or election if they shall not have been re-
elected, or from their last re-election when they shall have

been re-elected), shall retire annually, but shall be eligible

for re-election. If, in consequence of several Members
having been elected or appointed at the same time, there
shall be any difficulty in determining which four Members
ought to retire under this rule, those Members who have
been elected or appointed at the same time shall decide
such question by mutual arrangement between themselves,
or, in default of such arrangement, by lot.
Nomination IV.—At the Ordinary Meeting in December nominations
Of Officers, shall be made of Candidates to fill the offices of President,
Treasurer, Secretary, and Librarian, and vacancies on the
Council. Such nominations as regards Members of the
Council other than the President, Treasurer, Secretary, and
Librarian, shall be made by Resolutions, duly moved and
seconded, no Member being entitled to propose more than
one Candidate. The President, Treasurer, Secretary, and
Librarian, shall be nominated by the Council. A list of all
nominations made as above shall be printed in alphabetical
order upon the ballot-paper. At the Annual General Meeting
Election Of in January all the above Officers and Members of Council
Officers. shall be elected by ballot from the Candidates ; but any
Member shall be at liberty to substitute on his or her
ballot-paper any other name or names in lieu of those
nominated for the offices of President, Treasurer, Secretary,
and Librarian. Should a vacancy occur in the Council, by
retirement or otherwise, the Council shall have power to
nominate any Member of the Club to fill the vacancy until
the next General Meeting.