New Spalding Club > Report by Council

RULES.
'As approved wth Suvcmlni-, iS86, and amended ibth December, 1886, zist December
i8q4, anil 2qtJi December. 1897.)
1. The objects of the New Spalding Club shall be to promote the study of the
History, Topography, and Archsology of the North-eastern Counties of
Scotland, and to print works illustrative thereof.
2. The Club shall consist of five hundred [1(1//; Dec, 1886] members, subscribers
of one guinea annually : each subscription to be paid on or betore the first
day of January in each year.
3. The general management of the affairs of the Club shall be vested in a
Council, consisting of a President, at least ten Vice-Presidents, and not
fewer than forty ordinary members, including a Secretary and a Treasurer :
all to be chosen yearly at a General Meeting of the Club, to be held at
.\berdeen, in the Month of October, or at such other time within each year
as mav be found convenient. M all Meetings of the Council seven members
shall form a quorum.
4. Immediately after the .-Xnnual General Meeting the Council shall elect Acting
Committees to carry on the work ot the Club.
5. The accounts of the Club shall be audited annually, by two Auditors, to be
chosen at the Annual Meeting from among the members. .
6. The name of any member in arrear with his annual subscription on the first day
of October in each year may be removed from the list of members.
7. Vacancies in the membership shall be filled up according to priority of application.
8. Members may. at any time, compound for all future annual subscriptions, by
payment of ten guineas over and above the subscription for the current year ;
and it shall be in the power of the Council to e.xempt from subscriptions,
annual or other, any member who may present to the Club a work, the
printing of which, as a Club publication, has been sanctioned by the Council.
q. Every member shall receive one copy of every volume assigned by the Club to
the years for which he has paid subscriptions; and the editor of each
work shall receive five additional copies of his work. [The heir, e.xecutor
or representative of a member shall have no claim to volumes issued by
the Club after the member's death, unless he be admitted a member of the
Club in place of the deceased. 21st Dec., 1894.]