Regulations of the New Rupture Society; instituted May 15, 1804, ... for the relief of both sexes afflicted with herniary complaints and prolapses.

Date:
1812
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Credit: Regulations of the New Rupture Society; instituted May 15, 1804, ... for the relief of both sexes afflicted with herniary complaints and prolapses. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    twice in each, and in any other manner the com- mittee may think proper. 7. All contested elections shall be conducted by ballot agreeably to the following regulations, viz. (a) At twelve o’clock at noon the chair shall be taken according to the precedence of the governors then present, and each candidate for the vacant office may depute a governor to be a scrutineer on his part. (b) The secretary shall provide an accurate list of subscribers to the charity, with the number of votes each is entitled to give, for the use of the candidates and the chairman ; also a sufficient number of each of the candidates’ names, written or printed on small pieces of paper. (c) All persons offering to vote, including proxies, shall deliver a paper, containing the name of the candidate for whom they intend to vote, into the hands of the chairman, who shall deposit the same in a box or glass to be provided for that purpose. (d) The secretary and scrutineers shall write the name of each subscriber who votes: and if any person shall offer to ballot, whose right appears dubious, or shall be objected against by either of the scrutineers, the chairman shall indorse his name on the paper he delivers in, and lay the same aside until all the other votes shall have been taken, to be then allowed or rejected by a ballot of the qualified subscribers present. (e) At the close of the ballot, the several lists shall be compared and adjusted before the box or glass be opened ; the number of papers shall then be respectively counted, and if the whole together agree with the number of names written or printed 3,s before mentioned, the chairman, first announ- cing who has the majority of votes, shall declare