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V.—In the absence of the President and Vice-Presidents Chairman.
the Members present at any Meeting of the Club shall elect
a Chairman for that Meeting.
VI.—Every Candidate for Membership, other than Original Election Of
Members of the Club, shall be proposed by two or more Members.
Members, who shall sign a Certificate (see Appendix) in
recommendation of him or her, one at least of the proposers
so certifying from personal knowledge. The Certificate shall
be read from the Chair at the Ordinary Meeting following
its receipt by the Secretary, and the Candidate balloted for
at the next following Meeting (not being a Field Meeting),
one black ball in six to exclude. [Persons joining the Club
upon or within two Calendar months from its establishment
shall thereupon be considered Original Members.]
VII.—The Annual Subscription for Ordinary Members Subscription.
shall be ten shillings and sixpence, payable immediately
after their election, and afterwards becoming due in advance
on the first day of January in each year; Members elected
within two months before the thirty-first day of December
shall be exempt from the payment of subscription for the
year in which they are elected, but shall not be entitled to
receive the publications of the Club during that year without
payment. (Members residing beyond a radius of fifteen
miles from the Head-quarters of the Club shall not be called
upon to pay more than an Annual Subscription of seven
shillings and sixpence.) No Member shall be entitled to any
of the privileges of the Club whose subscription is twelve
months in arrear; and any Member whose subscription is
two years in arrear may be excluded from the Club by the
Council.
VIII.—The Honorary Members shall be ladies or gentle- Honorary
men of eminence in Natural Science or Archaeology, or who Members.
shall have done special service to the Club, and whose usual
place of residence is not in the County of Essex; and they
shall be elected only at a General Meeting by the Members
upon the recommendation of the Council, not more than