VI.—Powers and Duties of Office-Bearers.

The President shall have power to call a meeting of the Association at any other period besides those specified, provided that a requisition to that effect be sent him, signed by sis or more members. On such occasions he shall instruct the Secretary to send intimations to those members of the Association residing within a reasonable distance of the place of meeting. He shall also have a discretionary power to call meetings of Committee. The President, or in his absence the Vice-President, or failing both, some one of the Directors, shall preside at the General and Committee Meetings, and be entitled to a deliberative and also a casting vote in cases of parity. The Treasurer shall collect the funds, and lodge the same in a Bank specified by the Directors, page 7 in names of the President, Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer; but the Directors shall have the power to invest them, or part of them, in any sufficient security they may approve of. He shall also keep an Account Book of his transactions, which shall be open at all times to the inspection of the Directors. No portion of the funds can be drawn from the Bank in which they may have been deposited, without an order signed by the President, or in his absence the Vice-President, and by the Treasurer and Secretary. The Secretary shall send notices of the times of meeting to the members, and keep a faithful record of their proceedings, and shall draw up an annual report.