accordance with the following regulations. A written notice of the proposed removal, signed by two Members of the Association, shall be sent t› the Honorary Secretary, who shall immediately forward a copy of the charge to the Member accused, and shall at the same time summon the Council to meet within twenty-one days. He shall send a notice of the subject to be discussed to each Member of the Council at least fourteen days before the date of such meeting. If the Council shall resolve, by a majority of those present, that the Member so accused ought to be expelled, a notice shall be forthwith sent to each Member of the Association, making the next General Session special for the consideration of such removal, and if two-thirds of the Members voting shall be of opinion that the Member in question shall be expelled, the President shall direct the Honorary Secretary to remove his name from the list of Members. The votes shall be taken by ballot. 10. The subscription constituting a Member or Associate shall be Five Shillings annually, due on the first of January in each year. EXECUTIVE. 11.—The Officers of the Association shall be elected from the Members, and shall consist of a President, Six Vice-Presidents, a President of Council, a Treasurer, a Secretary, and a Council of Thirty-two; in whom the power of framing bye-laws, and of directing the affairs of the Association, shall be vested. 12.—Presidents of the Association shall, on retiring from office, become Honorary Members of Council. 13.-Five Members of the Council shall form a quorum. 14.—The Officers of the Association shall be elected by ballot at each Anniversary Session of the Association. 15,—The Officers of the Association shall be eligible for re-election, except that two of the Vice-Presidents and eight of the Council shall retire every year. 16.—The business of the President shall be to preside at the Sessions of the Association; in his absence one of the Vice-Presidents, the President of Council, or the Treasurer, or any Member of the Council chosen by the Members present, shall take the chair. 17.-The President of Council shall preside at the Meetings of the Council, and in his absence one of the Vice-Presidents, the Treasurer, or a Member of Council elected by the Council for that purpose. 18.—The Treasurer, or some person appointed by him, shall receive all moneys due to the Association. 19.—The money in the hands of the Treasurer, which shall not be immediately required for the uses of the Association, shall be vested in such speedily available securities as shall be approved of by the Council. 20.—The Council shall lay before the Members, at each Anniversary Session, a report of their proceedings during the past year, and also an account of the receipts and expenditure of the Association. 21.—The Council shall meet at least once in two months, unless by special resolution to the contrary. 22.-The annual accounts of the receipts and expenditure of the Association shall be audited by a Committee of three Members selected at the preceding Anniversary Session from among the Members at large. 23. The Secretary shall have the management of the general correspondence of the Association, and of such other business as may arise in carrying out its objects. SESSIONS. 24. The Association shall hold an Anniversary Session, commencing on St. Andrew's day, or on such other day as the Council may determine. The place of such Session, its duration, and the business to be transacted, shall be arranged by the Council. 25.—The Members and their friends shall hold an Anniversary Dinner on the last day of each Anniversary Session, at such place and time as the Council may determine; the President for the year shall be in the chair. 26.-No alteration in the Laws of the Association shall be made, except at a General Session. Notice of the alteration to be proposed must also have been laid before the Council at least a month previously. 27. The Council shall have power to call a General Session of the Members at any time, and shall also be required to do so within one month, upon receiving a requisition in writing to that effect from not less than twenty Members of the Association. 28.-All Special General Sessions of the Association shall be held at such place as the Council may appoint. GENERAL. 29.-The Council shall have power to publish the proceedings of the Association, and to make such charge for them as they may deem right. 30. The Council shall have power to order the name of any Member whose subscription is two years in arrear to be removed from the list of Members. NOTE.-The Annual Subscription is ten shillings-five shillings to the Association and five shillings for the volume of Transactions—and is due on the first of January in each year. The well-doing of the Association depends largely on its prompt payment. Historical Steps of Modern Medicine:-Anniversary Address, by Oil of Turpentine an Antidote against Poisoning by Phosphorus, On the Characteristic Properties of Ozone: its mode of Generation, Case of Empyema: Cure by five operations for Paracentesis, and use of Draining Tube; with Remarks, by J. Shepherd Fletcher, M.D.. 8 13 On Dipsomania and Habitual Drunkenness 93 On Croup, by Edwards Crisp, M.D. 120 Tarasp; its Mineral Waters and its Climate, by Leonard W. Sedgwick, M.D. 177 |