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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 22

Section XII.—Ordinary General Meetings

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Section XII.—Ordinary General Meetings.

1.—The Ordinary General Meeting shall be held in the Meeting-Room of the Society on the Evenings of the alternate Wednesdays from November to June inclusive, or oftener if the Council shall see occasion.

2.—A card, announcing the days and hours of the Ordinary Meetings, shall be sent annually, before the first meeting in November, to every resident Fellow whose residence is known.

3.—Persons not belonging to the Society, if introduced by Fellows or Foreign Members, may be present at the Ordinary Meetings. Their names shall be inserted in the minutes, with the names of the persons who introduced them.

4.—At the Ordinary Meetings the order of business shall be as follows:—
1°.The names of the visitors allowed to be present at the meeting shall be read aloud by the Chairman.
2°.The minutes of the last meeting shall be read aloud by one of the Secretaries, confirmed by the Meeting, and signed by the Chairman:
3°.The presents made to the Society since their last meeting shall be announced and exhibited:
4°.Certificates in favour of Candidates for admission into the Society shall be read, or submitted to ballot:
5°.Fellows, Foreign Members, and Foreign Correspondents shall sign their names in the Obligation-book, and shall be admitted:
6°.Geological communications shall be announced and read:
and 7°.When the other business has been completed, the persons)resent shall be invited by the Chairman to deliver aloud, from their places, their opinions on the communications which have been real, and on the specimens or drawings which have been exhibited it that meeting.

5.—No motion relating to the government of the Society, its bye-laws, the management of its concerns, or the election, appointment, or removal of its officers and servants, shall be made at any Ordinary Meeting; noi shall any business relating thereto be transacted at any such meeting, except in so far as the Charter or Bye-Laws may expressly enjoin or permit*.

* Notices of intended motions are to be read from the Chair (see Sect. XI. Art.); and extracts from the minute-book of the Council may be read (see Sect. IX. Art. 12) a Ordinary Meetings.