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Alteration of Objects.
3. The objects of the Association may be altered or added to in any way by a resolution passed at a General Meeting of the Association.
Membership.
4. All persons who have requested that their names should be put down as Members of the Association are Members of the Association and any British Subject, who is resident in this Colony, shall be eligible for membership of the Association, and shall have the right to join the Association.
Subscription.
5. Members shall pay subscription at the rate of one dollar per annum on the 15th day of May in every year, and the first subscription shall be payable on the 15th day of May, 1917.
6. Any member whose subscription shall be in arrear for a period of 3 months shall cease to be a member of the Association, unless the Committee shall see fit for good reason to waive the operation of this Rule.
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Officers.
7. The Officers of the Association shall be a President, a Vice-President, an Hon. Secretary, an Hon. Treasurer, and a Committee. The President and Vice-President and the Hon. Secretary, and the Hon. Treasurer shall be ex officio Members of the Committee, and the Committee shall have power at any time to add to their numbers as they may think fit and to form themselves into Sub-Committees for various purposes.
8. The first Officers of the Association shall be elected by the Members at the first General Meeting of the Association, and, subject to the powers conferred on the Committee by rules 7 and 10 all Officers subsequent to the first Officers shall be elected at each Annual General Meeting of the Association. All Officers, so elected, shall hold office until the next Annual General Meeting, when they shall be eligible for re-election from year to year.
9. With the exception of the first Officers, no Member of the Association (other than an Officer thereof) shall be eligible for election as an Officer of the Association at an annual general meeting