'The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1863 to December 1864. (Edited by the Secretary.) Volume XVII.' [‎5] (18/524)

RULES AND REGULATIONS.
—This Society, established for the purpose of encouraging and
instituting Geographical researches in Western Asia and the countries
contiguous, is denominated the Bombay Geographical Society.”
The Society shall consist of Honorary and Ordinary Members.
Zrd .—Every candidate for admission, whether as an Ordinary or
Honorary Member, must be proposed and seconded at one Meeting of
the Society, and balloted for at the next.
Ath .—No person shall be considered duly elected, unless he unite in
his favour the votes of three-fourths of the Members present.
5th .—An annual Subscription, amounting to Rs. 15, to be paid by
all Members in advance, on the 1st of April of each year.
5th .—Members may compromise by a single payment of Its. 100,
instead of a payment of Rs. 15 annually.
7th.—Of the Office-Bearers and Committee .—The Office-Bearers
shall consist of a President, a Secretary, and Treasurer,-—permanent ;
three Vice-Presidents and a General Committee of Management (con
sisting of 20 Members) to be chosen annually.
—That the. Committee of Management and other Office-Bearers
of the Society eligible annually, shall be chosen by general vote of the
Ordinary Members, to whom voting lists shall be forwarded three months
previous to the Anniversary Meeting, at which the returns shall be
scrutinized and announced.
Stth .—Two Sub-Committees, consisting of six Members each, shall
be annually selected from among the Resident Members of the General
Committee, at the first meeting after the annual election of the latter.
The Sub-Committee having the superintendence of all the internal
management, accounts, &c. of the Society, shall he denominated the
“ Sub-Committee of i\ccounts” : the other shall conduct the correspon
dence of the Society, and suggest plans for attaining its scientific objects
-“to be called “ The Sub-Committee of Correspondence.’