25. The Ordinary Meetings of the Society shall be held on Tuesdays in each month from November to June, both inclusive; and a printed card of such Meetings shall be delivered to each Fellow before the commencement of the session.
26. Business shall commence at Eight o’clock in the evening precisely, when the minutes of the preceding Ordinary Meeting shall be read.
27. At the Ordinary Meetings, the order of business shall be as follows:—The minutes of the last Meeting shall be real aloud by one of the Secretaries, and if found correct, shall be signed by the Chairman; the presents made to the Society since their last meeting shall be announced; communications shall be announced and read; after which, the persons present shall be invited by the Chairman to deliver aloud, from their places, their opinions on the communications which have been read, and on the specimens or drawings which have been exhibited at that meeting.
28. Every Fellow shall have the privilege of introducing two Visitors at each Ordinary Meeting of the Society, whose names, and that of the Fellow introducing them, shall be entered in a book kept for the purpose.
29. At an ordinary meeting, no question relating to the Rules or management of the Society shall be introduced.
Council Meetings.
30. The Council shall meet on some convenient day in the week of each Ordinary Meeting. And the President or any three Members of the Council, may at any time call a Special Meeting of the Council, to which the whole Council shall be summoned.
31. In all Meetings of the Council, five to be a quorum; all questions to be decided by vote, unless a ballot be demanded; and a decision of the majority to be considered as the decision of the Meeting; the Chairman having, in case of an equality, the casting-vote.
Duties of Council.