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Rh LOCAL COMMITTEES 10. (a) Local Committees may be formed for any Country, Province or City, where, in the opinion of the Executive Board, there are sufficient members in touch with one another to make such a committee desirable.

(b) Local Committees shall consist of a Chairman, a Secretary, and not less than two. nor more than six. other members, who shall be elected annually at a meeting of the members in whose interest such committee is organized.

(c) Local Committees shall have the power to pass by-laws for their own governance.

(d) For the purpose of full representation, the Chairmen of not more than seven Local Committees may be elected to the Executive Board at the same time and in the same manner as other officers of the Club.

NOMINATION AND ELECTION OF MEMBERS 11. (a) Every nomination for membership must be made by not less than three members of the Club. Such nomination, with a statement of the qualifications of the proposed member, shall be submitted to the Executive Board, which shall pass upon the eligibility of the candidate. A ballot containing the names of such candidates as have been approved by the Executive Board, together with a statement of their qualifications and the names of their sponsors, shall be sent by the Secretary-Treasurer to each Active member. Such ballots as are returned to the Secretary-Treasurer within six weeks after they were sent out shall be canvassed by the Executive Board and the result declared in the minutes of the Ecard and in the next circular issued to members. Five adverse votes on an election shall disqualify for membership. This does not apply to Honorary members, who shall be elected by a two-thirds majority of the votes recorded.

(b) No candidate shall be eligible for election who has not attained the age of eighteen years.

NOMINATION AND ELECTION OF OFFICERS 12. (a) The election of officers shall take place at every alternate Annual Meeting. Two months before such meeting, the President shall appoint a Nominating Committee of five Active members. This Committee shall prepare a list of candidates for the ensuing term and report it to the Secretary-Treasurer.

(b) A ballot containing these nominations shall be mailed to each Active member at least six weeks before the date of election. .t the meeting appointed for the election, these ballots shall be cast and the result declared. In case of a failure to elect, the existing officers shall hold office until their successors are elected by special ballot cast for such purpose.

DUES 13. (a) Annual dues for Active membership shall be five dollars.

Annual dues for Associate members shall be twenty-five dollars.

Annual dues for Graduating members shall be two dollars and fifty cents.

Annual dues for Subscribing members shall be two dollars.

(b) Members in arrear for two years, to whom have been mailed the usual notice for dues and a final notice, shall forfeit membership but the Executive Board shall have power to reinstate such members at its discretion on payment of all arrears.

HEADQUARTERS

14. The Headquarters of the Club shall be at Banff, in the Rocky Mountains Park of Canada.

ANNUAL MEETING

15. An Annual Meeting of the Club for the election of officers and the transaction of other business shall be held at the Club's summer camp or, failing a summer camp, at the Club's headquarters during the months of July or August.

QUORUM

16. Seven Active members shall constitute a quorum of the Club for the general transaction of business, and three members of the Executive Board shall constitute a quorum of that Committee for the general transaction of business.