REPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR THE YEAR 1883.
[Read at the Fourth Annual General Meeting, held at
Buckhurst Hill, January 26th, 1884.]
In presenting the 4th Annual Report the Council has great pleasure in
congratulating the members on the continued prosperity of the Club;
the work on the whole having been successfully and pleasantly carried on
during the past year.
Boll of Members.—The number of ordinary members elected into
the Club in 1883 was 52, and two Honorary Members were chosen;
23 members have resigned or have been removed from the list, and we
have to regret the loss of three members by death. Two members have
compounded for their annual subscriptions. The census of the Club at
the end of the years 1882 and 1883 respectively, was therefore as
follows:—
1882. 1883.
Patron .................... 1 ...... 1
Hon. members.............. 10 ...... 12
Life members.............. 13 ...... 15
Ordinary members.......... 330 ...... 354
354 382
It is very desirable that the Club should possess a permanent and paying
constituency of at least 400 members in order that the publications may
keep pace with the activity of the Society. It is also important that the
number of members living in the county should be increased, and the
friends of the Club are desired to do all in their power to increase that
class of members.
Some doubt seeming to exist as to the law of the Club with regard to
Resignations, the Council thinks it right to point out that the rule
reprinted below is a very necessary one, and must be enforced in the
interests of the officers. The list of members must be fully made up
before the 1st of January in each year to avoid confusion, and to enable
the Council to form a trustworthy estimate of the income for the ensuing
year. The Rule is as follows:—
" XI.—Members wishing to resign at the termination of any year are
requested to inform the Secretary, in writing, of their intention to do so,
on or before the first day of November of that year, and members not so
resigning shall be considered liable for the subscription for the year next
ensuing."