Regulations of the New Rupture Society, (established July 4, 1805) for the relief of both sexes afflicted with herniary complaints and prolapses.

  • New Rupture Society (London, England)
Date:
[1805]
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Credit: Regulations of the New Rupture Society, (established July 4, 1805) for the relief of both sexes afflicted with herniary complaints and prolapses. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    § VII. REGULATIONS AT ELECTIONS. / ]. The chair shall be taken according to prece¬ dence, at twelve o’clock, and each candidate for the vacant office may depute a governor to be scrutineer on his part. The secretary or sub¬ secretary shall provide an accurate list of sub¬ scribers to the charity, with the number of votes each is entitled to give, for the use of the candi¬ dates, and the chairman ; also a sufficient num¬ ber of each of the candidates’ names, written or printed, on a small piece of paper. 2. Every person offering to vote shall deliver the paper containing the name of the candidate for whom he intends to vote, into the hands of the chairman, who shall deposit the same in a box or glass, to be provided for that purpose. 3. The sub-secretary and scrutineer shall write down the name of each subscriber who votes ; and if any person shall offer to ballot whose right ap¬ pears dubious, or shall be objected against by either of the scrutineers, the chairman shall indorse his name on the paper he delivers in, and lay the same aside, to be allowed or rejected by a ballot of the subscribers present, after all the other votes shall have been taken. 4. At the close of the ballot the several lists shall be compared and adjusted, before the box or glass be opened; the number of papers shall then be respectively counted, and if the whole together agree with the number of names taken down as before mentioned, the chairman, first announcing who has the majority of votes, shall declare such person to be duly elected : the whole proceedings