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least five days before the date fixed for the annual meeting,
such voting-papers on receipt at the office of the Institute
to be forthwith placed in a sealed ballot-box, which shall
be opened by the scrutineers alone.

54. Should any member leave uncancelled upon his
    voting-paper in respect of any office the names of more
    persons than there are vacancies to be filled, then his vote
    in respect of the election for such office shall be invalid.

55. As soon as the voting-papers have been examined
    and the result of the election ascertained by the scrutineers,
    the voting-papers shall be closed up under the seals of the
    scrutineers, and shall be retained by them for one month
    after the election, when they shall be destroyed by the
    scrutineers.

56. The scrutineers shall make and sign a report in which
    they will state the total number of voting-papers received,
    the number rejected and the grounds for rejection, the
    total number of votes in favour of each candidate, and
    the names of those who are duly elected, and shall hand
    such report to the Secretary not later than seven days before
    the date of the annual meeting of the Council.

57. The scrutineers’ report shall be conclusive as to
    the fact of the election notwithstanding any irregularity
    or nonconformity.

58. All officers and members of the Council appointed
    as hereinbefore provided shall remain in office from the
    date of their appointment until the close of the annual
    meeting following their election, or until such time as their
    successors have been elected.

Quorum of Council.

59. At every meeting of the Council seven shall form
    a quorum, and no business shall be transacted at any
    meeting unless a quorum is present.

60. If within half an hour after the time appointed for
    any meeting a quorum is not present, the meeting shall
    stand adjourned to the same day in the next week, at the
    same time and place, and if at such adjourned meeting a
    quorum is not present, then, notwithstanding anything
    in the foregoing provisions of this section, the members
    who are present shall be a quorum and may transact the
    business for which the meeting was called.

Powers of Council.

61. Subject to the provisions of the Act and of these
    regulations, the Council shall have the sole and entire
    management of the Institute and of the income and pro-
    perty thereof, and may exercise on behalf of the Institute
    all the powers and functions thereof not required by the
    Act or these regulations to be exercised only by resolu-
    tion of a general meeting.

62. The Council shall regulate its own proceedings by
    standing order or otherwise, as it may see fit, and any act
    or proceeding of the Council shall not be invalidated by
    any vacancy in the Council; provided always that the
    number of members of Council be not reduced below two-
    thirds of the full number herein provided.

63. The Council shall have power, by a vote of a majority
    of three-fourths of the members present at a meeting called
    to consider a motion to that effect, to call upon the sub-
    scribing members, pari passu, to contribute funds for the
    general purposes of the Institute, or any special object
    within the objects of the Institute, and each member shall
    pay every call so made to the persons and at the times and
    places appointed by the Council, but no member shall be
    called upon to pay more than five guineas over and above
    his annual subscription in any one year. A call shall be
    deemed to be made at the time when the resolution of the
    Council making the same was passed. Fourteen days’
    notice shall be given to all members of each call so made.

64. If any member shall neglect for one month to pay
    any money other than his annual subscription that may
    in any manner be due from him to the Institute, the Council
    shall, by notice in writing, request him to make such pay-
    ment. The notice shall appoint a place and day for pay-
    ment, and a copy of this clause shall be subjoined thereto.
    If the requisition of such notice is not complied with for
    a period of two months after such notice, the Council may
    recover the same by process of law.

65. The Council shall have full power to purchase or
    rent and furnish suitable premises for the use of the
    Institute or any branch.

66. The Council or the Executive Committee shall, unless
    otherwise directed by any deed of trust, have the power
    to invest any entrance fees, surplus income, funds, dona-
    tions, endowments, or any other moneys not immediately
    required for the ordinary purposes of the Institute in the
    name of the Institute or of any two or more members of
    the Council, in trust, in any securities in which trustees

are for the time being authorized to invest trust moneys,
or by leaving the same upon deposit with any reputable
bank or building society or by lending the same to any
municipal corporation or local authority.

67. All moneys belonging to the Institute and not
    invested shall be lodged on current account by the Council
    on account of and for the use of the Institute in such bank
    in such city as the Council shall direct.

68. Every vacancy in the office of trustee shall be filled
    at the next meeting of the Council or of the Executive
    Committee after such vacancy occurs.

69. Any trustee may resign his office by letter delivered
    to the Secretary.

70. The office of trustee shall be vacated by the
    bankruptcy of the trustee or by his ceasing to be a member
    of the Institute, or by absence beyond the sea for a period
    of one year.

71. A trustee may be discharged from his office by a
    vote of a majority of two-thirds of the members present
    at any annual meeting or any special meeting called for
    the purpose.

72. No sum of money exceeding one pound shall be paid
    on account of the Institute except by a cheque of the
    Council, signed by the Honorary Treasurer and the Secretary.

73. The Council shall contribute annually to each
    District Branch a sum to be fixed by the Council as a
    grant towards the expenses of the branch.

74. The Council may, subject to such limitations or
    restrictions as the regulations may from time to time
    prescribe, apply the funds of the Institute in furthering
    professional education and in conducting examinations which
    the Institute now is or may hereafter be empowered or
    required to hold, and such other examination or examina-
    tions as the Institute may from time to time think fit to
    establish, and in extending and in improving the library,
    museum, and collections, and for other purposes connected
    with architecture, and in other ways promoting the objects
    of the Institute.

75. The Council may regulate and determine the fees
    to be paid by candidates in respect of all examinations
    which the Institute now is or may hereafter be empowered
    or required to hold, and such other examination or examina-
    tions as the Institute may think fit to establish.

76. Subject to any specific trust imposed thereon, the
    Council may apply any donations or endowments which
    may be given to the Institute for any purpose connected
    with the profession of architecture.

77. The Council may employ any part of the funds of
    the Institute in the payment of lecturers, or the founda-
    tion of prizes, scholarships or exhibitions conducted or
    held by the Institute, for grants to students’ societies, as
    well as for any other general purposes of the Institute.

78. Notwithstanding anything herein contained, the
    Council may from time to time borrow money tempo-
    rarily and may pay interest thereon.

79. The Council may with the consent of a general
    meeting make such provision for pensioning retired officers
    and servants, whether by agreement at the time of appoint-
    ment or employment, or otherwise, as to the Council may
    seem just.

80. The Council may grant pecuniary and other assist-
    ance to members of the Institute who are in need of such
    assistance or to the wife or children of any member, or the
    widow or children of any deceased member, or to the parent
    or parents of a member or deceased member.

81. The Council may pay out of the funds of the
    Institute the reasonable travelling-expenses of any member
    thereof on each occasion of such member attending a
    meeting of the Council, or of any committee thereof, as
    may be determined by a resolution of the Council, or of
    the Executive Committee.

82. The Council shall have power in each year to publish
    or cause to be published at the expense of the Institute or
    otherwise a list of the members of the Institute, together
    with such other particulars in respect to the Institute or
    its objects as they may deem advisable, and they shall in
    such list distinguish in such way as shall to the Council
    seem fit the Fellows and Associates, or may publish the
    list in any other form they determine upon, and such list
    shall be supplied to members and others gratuitously or
    at such prices as the Council or the Executive Committee
    shall from time to time determine.

83. For the purpose of publishing such list, each District
    Secretary shall, before 30th September of each year,
    send to the Secretary the name and address or place of
    business of all members of his District Branch, failing
    which the list may be drawn up on such information as
    the Council may possess.