_Of the Meetings of Proprietors_.
RULE I. AN Annual General Meeting of the Proprietors shall be holden at
the School Room on the last Monday in April, at Two o’Clock precisely, of
which notice shall be given; the business of such Meeting being to elect
to the vacancies in the Committee, as hereinafter provided for, (Sect.
III. Rule II.) to receive a Report, and hear the Minutes of the Committee
for the preceding year; to pas» the Treasurers Accounts; and to enquire
generally into the affairs of the Institution.
RULE II. No proposition for making an alteration in the Roles of the
Institution, or for forming any new Rule, shall be considered at a
General Meeting, except on a requisition, signed by Ten Proprietors, to
be delivered to the Secretary, at least thirty days before such General
Meeting: the Secretary shall make known to the body of Proprietors the
nature of the subject to be discussed; but no such proposition for
alteration in the Rules shall be finally decided upon, except at a
subsequent Special General Meeting, to be summoned for the purpose.
RULE III. Special General Meetings of the Proprietors may be holden at
the Institution, whenever the Committee hereinafter named may deem it
necessary, or whenever an appeal is made to the authority of such
Meeting; the Secretary, on the direction of the Committee, or at the
request, in writing, of the Appellant, to convene such Meeting, giving
each Proprietor at least seven days notice thereof, stating the hour and
place of meeting, and the subject to be laid before the Proprietors: such
Meeting may also be convened by the Secretary, with the like notice, upon
his being requested to do so by a requisition signed by seven
Proprietors.
RULE IV. All questions at General Meetings shall be decided by a
majority of the Proprietors, except on occasions of balloting for a
Proprietor or Nominee, when not less than three-fourths of the votes
given shall be deemed to constitute a majority.
RULE V. All Lady Proprietors not attending any General Meeting, may vote
by Proxy, to be tendered by a Proprietor; but no Proprietor shall be
allowed to hold more than one Proxy, and the said Proxy shall not have
effect for more than one Meeting.
RULE VI. The President or Chairman for the time being shall, at all
Meetings, have a casting vote.
RULE VII. Any General Meeting, Special or Annual, may be adjourned for
the purpose of concluding any business regularly before it, of which
adjournment no special notice shall be given.
RULE VIII. Whenever notice is to be given to any Proprietor on any
subject, it is to be understood that a letter sent to his or her last or
usual place of residence, shall be deemed sufficient.