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Title, Objects, and Constitution.

1. The Society shall be called the Dunedin Philharmonic Society.

2. The objects of the Society shall be the practice and performance of Vocal and Instrumental Music.

3. Any person may, on the nomination of any member of the Society, and upon due election by the Committee at any of its meetings, be admitted to attend the Society's Concerts on the terms of subscription hereinafter provided. (Rule 38.)

4. Any person having been duly proposed, and having given sufficient proof to the Conductor of ability to sing, or play an orchestral instrument, may, on payment of the annual subscription hereinafter provided, be admitted by the Committee at any of its meetings, and continue to be a member of the Society. (Rule 39.)

5. Any person who, in the opinion of the Society, shall have rendered important service to the Society, or shall be a musician worthy of distinction, may, on the nomination of any member of the Society, be elected at any general meeting an honorary member, and as such receive one ticket for each of its ordinary Concerts : provided always that the number of honorary members shall not at any time exceed five.

6. The Society's year shall extend from the 1st January to 31st December, inclusive, in each year.

7. The annual meeting of the Society shall take place on the second Wednesday in January of each year, and such annual meeting may be adjourned on a resolution to that effect of the members then present.

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8. At the annual meeting, or at any adjournment thereof, the report of the outgoing Committee shall be read, the officers for the then current year elected, and all other business not specially provided for in these Rules transacted.

9. All goods and chattels belonging to the Society shall be held by the Committee for the time being in trust for the Society.

10. The Committee shall have power to admit as a free performer any person whose assistance may, in the opinion of the Committee, be advantageous to the Society.