RULES.
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nated by the Council, but any Member shall be at liberty to propose any
other Member for the office of President, Treasurer, Secretary, Assistant-
Secretary, or Librarians in lieu of any Member so nominated by the
Council, such proposal being duly seconded; no Member being entitled to
propose more than one Candidate. A list of all nominations made as
above shall be printed in alphabetical order upon the ballot-paper. At
the annual General Meeting in the month of March all the above Officers
and Members of Council shall be elected by ballot from the Candidates.
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.
VIII.—In the absence of the President and Vice-Presidents, the Mem-
bers present at any meeting of the Club shall elect a Chairman for that
meeting.
IX.—Every Candidate for Membership shall be proposed by two or

Chairman of
Meeting.
Election of
Members.
more Members, who shall sign a certificate (see Appendix B) in recom-
mendation of him or her, one at least of the proposers so certifying from
personal knowledge; and every Candidate for Election shall sign an
undertaking to abide by the Rules, if elected (see Appendix B). The Certi-
ficate shall be read from the chair at the Ordinary Meeting following its
receipt by the Secretary, or advertised in the next following circular and
the Candidate balloted for at the next following Ordinary Meeting, one
black ball in six to exclude; or the Chairman of the Meeting may take
the election by show of hands.
X.—The Annual Subscription for Ordinary Members, with the excep- Subscription
tion of Associates specially mentioned and provided for in Rule XI, shall
be a minimum of fifteen shillings, payable immediately after their election,
with an Entrance Fee of 10s. 6d.,* and afterwards becoming due in
advance on the first day of January in each year. Provided, nevertheless,
that any two or more Members of the same family, who reside in the
same house, and are willing to receive between them only one copy of the
Club's Publications, may become Ordinary Members of the Club, and
shall enjoy all the privileges of Membership (except that they shall
receive between them only one copy of the Club's Publications, as above)
in return for the usual Entrance Fee in respect of each Member (in the
case of new Members), and a joint Annual Subscription of One Guinea
for the first two Members and Six Shillings annually for each additional
Member. Members elected within two months before the thirty-first day
of December shall be exempt from payment of subscription for the year
in which they are elected, but shall not be entitled to receive the publica-
tions of the Club issued during that year without payment.
XI.—On the nomination of not less than five Members of the Club, the Associates.
Council may elect a limited number of persons taking an interest in
Natural Science as Associates—such Associates to pay a subscription of
five shillings per annum in advance, without entrance fee, and to enjoy
all the privileges of members excepting voting and holding office in the
Club.
XII.—The Honorary Members shall be ladies or gentlemen of eminence Hon. Memb<
in Natural Science or Archaeology, or who 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 five
to be elected in any one year. No subscription or ether payment shall
be required from the Honorary Members.
XIII.—Anv Ordinary Member may compound for his or her Annual Compounding
Subscription by a single payment of £10 10s.; all such sums to be dealt
with as the Council shall think fit.
XIV.—Every Member shall have the privilege of attending all the

Privileges of
Membership.
Annual, Ordinary, and Field Meetings of the Club, and of introducing
* At a Meeting on March 27th 1837, it was agreed, " That the entrance-fee be suspended as
from the 1st January 1897, for such time as the Council may consider necessary."