Memorandum and articles of association / Sanitary Institute of Great Britain.

  • Sanitary Institute (Great Britain)
Date:
1888
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Credit: Memorandum and articles of association / Sanitary Institute of Great Britain. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    otherwise provided, or unless where otherwise by law required, be decided when the vote is not unanimous by a simple majority of the votes of the Members personally present. The Vote to be taken by a show of hands or by dividing the Meeting as the Chairman shall decide, unless a division be demanded by at least six Members. 41. The President or in his absence the Senior Vice-President, or in case two or more Vice-Presidents of equal standing shall be present, such one of them as shall be chosen by the Members present, or in the absence or unwillingness to act of the President and all the Vice-Presidents, the Chairman of Council, or in his absence or un¬ willingness any Member chosen by the Members present, shall preside as Chairman at any General Meeting. 42. The Chairman may, with the consent of the Meeting, adjourn any General Meeting from time to time and from place to place, but no business shall be transacted at any Adjourned General Meeting other than the business left unfinished at the Meeting at which the adjournment took place. XI.—Votes oe Membees. 43. Every Member shall, upon a show of hands or Division, have one vote only. In case of an equality of votes, the Chairman shall have a second or casting vote. XII.—The Peesident, Vice-Peesidents, and Teeastjeee oe the Institute, and Mode oe Theie Election. 44. Among the Eellows of the Institute there shall be one who shall hold and bear the title, and discharge the duties of President of the Institute ; and unless and until the Institute in General Meeting shall otherwise, either by special or extraordinary Resolution so resolve, there shall be two or more Fellows who shall respectively hold and bear the title and discharge the duties of Vice-President of the Institute; and there shall also be elected from among the Fellows of the Institute one who shall bear the title and discharge the duties of Treasurer of the Institute. 45. The first President, Vice-Presidents, and Treasurer of the Institute shall be elected at the First General Meeting of the Insti¬ tute to be held after its incorporation, and they shall respectively hold office until the Ordinary General Meeting of the Institute, or, if more than one, the first Ordinary General Meeting of the Insti¬ tute to be held in the year next but one after the year of incorpora¬ tion, or such other Ordinary General Meeting as shall be determined at the time of their election. 46. At the Ordinary General Meeting until which a President, Vice-President, or Treasurer is to hold office, the office which he vacates is to be filled until such subsequent Ordinary General Meeting as shall then be determined, or, if no other shall be so determined, then until the only or first Ordinary General Meeting in the following year, and [subject to the provisions of the next article] a retiring President, Vice-President, or Treasurer shall be re-eligible.