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(b) two shall be subscriber members of European race, other than British subjects, not domiciled in the Colony but resident therein at the time of their appointment;

(c) two shall be subscriber members of Chinese race domiciled in the Colony and resident therein at the time of their appointment; and

(d) three sball be residential members of the Helena May

at the time of their appointment.

3. For the purpose of making up to fifteen the number of the First Members of the Council (named in the Ordinance) the Secretary shall not later than three months after the Ordinance comes into operation convene a meeting of the residential members who shall elect from among their number three persons to be, and the same when elected shall be, members of the Council and the persons so elected shall (with the First Members or any substituted members) hold office until the first Annual General Meeting convened in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution.

4. Members of the Council shall hold office from the date of the Annual Meeting at which they are elected until the newly elected members come into office at the next An- nual General Meeting. Members of the Council shall be eligible for re-election.

5. A subscriber member whose name is placed on the Absent Members List or who is absent from the Colony for more than three months at a time or who resigns, shall forth- with cease to be a member of the Council.

6. (1) Any two subscriber members shall be at liberty to nominate a subscriber member to serve upon the Council (having first obtained ber consent) and such nomination shall be lodged with the Secretary and posted on the notice board in the Helena May not less than two clear days before the date of the Annual General Meeting.

(2) If the number of subscriber members so nominated does not in any one of the clasers specified in sub-paragraphis (a), (b) and (c) of paragraph 2 of this Article exceed the number mentioned in that sub-paragraph, the persons nominated in respect of that class may be elected by resolution of the subscriber members at the Annual General Meeting.

(3) If the number does exceed the number specified in any one of the said sub-paragraphs, then balloting lists of the names of the persons so nominated of that class shall be circulated and each subscriber member present at the meeting shall hand in her list with the number of names unerased prescribed by sub-paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of paragraph 2 of this Article as the case may be. The persons gaining in the respective classes the greatest number of votes shall be deemed to be elected.

7. Not less than fourteen days before the date fixed for the Annual General Meeting of the Subscriber Members, the Secretary shall give notice convening a meeting of the Residential Members to be held not less than seven days before the Annual General Meeting for the purpose of electing three members of the Council from among their number.

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Any two Residential Metubers shall be at liberty to nominate Residential Members to serve upon the Council Caving first obtained their consent).

Nominations shall be lodged with the Secretary not less than two clear days before the date for which the meeting is convened and the names of those nominated shall be posted on the notice board.

If the number of persons nominated does not exceed three, the members nominated may be elected by resolution at the meeting of Residential Members.

If the number nominated does exceed three then balleting lists giving the names of those nominated shall be distributed to the Residential Members present at the meeting and they shall band in their lists with three names unerased and the persons nominated and securing the greatest number of votes shall be deemed to be elected.

A residential member who ceases to reside in the Institute shall forthwith cease to be a member of the Council.

8. Whenever the seat of any member of the Council shall become vacant from any cause whatsoever, the remaining members of the Council may appoint some person to be a member of the Council in the place of the member whose seat bas become vacant, due regard being had to the proportion of members of different categories prescribed by paragraph 2 of this Article.

Such person shall bold her place in the Council until the next Anmial General Meeting.

9. The Council shall choose its own Chairman and Vice- Chairman from among the members.

Five members personally present shall be a quorum for a meeting of the Council.

10. The Council may appoint an Honorary Secretary or an Honorary Treasurer and a Secretary, Treasurer and such other officers and servants as it may deem necessary and at such remuneration as it shall think fit.

11. The Council way form such Sub-Committees as it may think fit for the management of the affairs of the Helena May and may delegate to such Sub-Committees such powers as the Council may deem expedient but the decisions of such Sub-Committees shall be referred to the Council for ratifica-

tion.

12. The Council may make all necessary rules, not repugnant to the Ordinance or the Constitution, for the regulation and management of the affairs of the corporation and of the Helena May and in particular may make rules as to the conduct of the business at meetings, the forms to be used for application for membership, the number of persons to be admitted to membership, the amount and time for pay- ment of subscriptions and other charges, the admission of and privileges to be extended to visitors and the regulation of the conduct of Residential and Subscriber Members, and may from time to time amend, vary, rescind, or suspend any rules made and make or issue new rules.