EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS of the Council for the ensuing year :

Past-Presidents.

Retiring Vice-Presidents.

Extract from Bye law 21.

Each Member, and Associate Member, shall be at liberty tɔ nominate in writing, and send to the Secretary not less than eight days prior to the Ordinary General Meeting in June, a list, duly signed, of Members and Associate Members suitable to fill the offices of President, Vice-Presidents, and Members of Council, for the ensuing year. The Council shall prepare a list of the persons so nominated, together with the names of the Officers for the current year eligible for re-election, and of such other Members and Associate Members as they deem suitable for the various offices. Such list shall comprise the names of not less than thirty persons. The list so prepared by the Council shall be submitted to the General Meeting in June, and shall be the balloting list for the annual election in August. [See Form O in the Appendix. A copy of this list shall be posted at least seven days previous to the Annual Meeting, to every Member and Associate Member, who inay erase any name or names from the list, and substitute the name or names of any other Member or Associate Member eligible for each respective office; but the number of names on the list, after such erasure or substitution must not exceed the number to be elected to the respective offices. Papers which do not accord with these directions shall be rejected by the scrutineers. The votes for any Member who may not be elected President or Vice-Presidents shall count for them as Members of the Council, but in no case shall he receive more than one vote from each voter. The Chairman shall appoint four scrutineers, who shall receive the balloting papers, and, after making the necessary scrutiny, destroy the same, and sign and hand to the Chairman a list of the elected Officers. The balloting papers may be returned through the post, addressed to the Secretary, or be handed to him, or to the Chairman of the meeting, so as to be received before the appointment of the scrutineers for the election of Officers.

Names substituted for any of the above are to be written in the blank spaces opposite those they are intended to supersede.

The following Members are ineligible from causes specified in Bye-law 20 :-

to the General Meeting on Saturday, the..

(Signature of Member, Associate Member, Associate, or Student)..

The Chair to be taken at Two o'clock p.m.

I undertake to abide by the Regulations of the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, and not to aid in any unauthorised publication of the Proceedings.

Not transferable.

(Signature of Visitor).........

FEDERATED INSTITUTION OF MINING ENGINEERS.

FOUNDED JULY 1ST, 1889.

Bye-Laws passed at Council Meeting held on the 28th of May, 1891.

I.-CONSTITUTION.

1.-The Federated Institution of Mining Engineers shall consist of all or any of the societies interested in the advancement of mining, metallurgy, engineering, and their allied industries, who shall from time to time join together and adhere to the Bye-Laws.

2. The Institution shall have for its objects

(a) The advancement and encouragement of the sciences of mining, metallurgy engineering, and their allied industries.

(b) The interchange of opinions, by the reading of communications from members and others, and by discussions at general meetings, upon improvements in mining, metallurgy, engineering, and their allied industries. (c) The publication of original communications, discussions, and other papers connected with the objects of the Institution.

(d) The purchase and disposal of real and personal property for such objects. (e) The performance of all things connected with or leading to the purpose of such objects.

3.--The offices of the Institution shall be in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, or such other place as shall be from time to time determined by resolution of the Council. 4. The year of the Institution shall end on July 31st in every year. 5.-The affairs and business of the Institution shall be managed and controlled by the Council.

6. The original adherents or founders are as follow:

(a) Chesterfield and Midland Counties Institution of Engineers, Chesterfield. (b) Midland Institute of Mining, Civil, and Mechanical Engineers, Barnsley. (c) North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, Newcastleupon-Tyne.

(d) South Staffordshire and East Worcestershire Institute of Mining Engineers, Birmingham.

7.-Written applications from societies to enter the Institution shall be made to the Council, by the President of the applying society, who shall furnish any information that may be desired by the Council.

8.-A.-If desired by the Council, any of the Federated Institutes shall revise their Bye-Laws, in order that their members shall consist of Ordinary Members, Associate Members, and Honorary Members, with Associates and Students, and section B following shall be a model Bye-Law to be adopted by any society when so desired by the Council.

B.-"The members shall consist of Ordinary Members, Associate Members, and Honorary Members, with Associates and Students:

(a) Each Ordinary Member shall be more than twenty-three years of age, have been regularly educated as a mining, metallurgical or mechanical engineer, or in some other branch of engineering according to the usual routine of pupilage, and have had subsequent employment for at least two years in some responsible situation as an engineer; or if he has not undergone the usual routine of pupilage, he must have been employed or have practised as an engineer for at least five years. (b) Each Associate Member shall be a person connected with or interested in mining, metallurgy, or engineering, and not practising as a mining, metallurgical, or mechanical engineer, or some other branch of engineering. (c) Each Honorary Member shall be a person who has distinguished himself by his literary or scientific attainments, or who may have made important communications to any of the Federated Institutes.

(d) Associates shall be persons acting as under-viewers, under-managers, or in other subordinate positions in mines or metallurgical works, or employed in analogous positions in other branches of engineering.

(e) Students shall be persons who are qualifying themselves for the profession of mining, metallurgical, or mechanical engineering, or other branch of engineering, and such persons may continue Students until they attain the age of twenty-five years."

9.-The Ordinary Members, Associate Members, and Honorary Members, Associates and Students shall have notice of and the privilege of attending the ordinary and annual general meetings, and shall receive all publications of the Institution. They may also have access to, and take part in, the general meetings of any of the Federated Institutes.

10. The members of any Federated Institute, whose payments to the Institution are in arrear, shall not receive the publications and other privileges of the Institution.

11. After explanations have been asked by the President from any Federated Institute, whose payments are in arrear, and have not been paid within one month after written application by the Secretary, the Council may decide upon its suspension or expulsion from the Institution; but such suspension or expulsion shall only be decided at a meeting attended by at least two-thirds of the members of the Council by a majority of three-fourths of the members present.

12. Each of the Federated Institutes shall pay fifteen shillings per annum for each Ordinary Member, Associate Member, Honorary Member, Associate, and Student, or such other sum, and in such instalment or instalments as may be determined from time to time by resolution or resolutions of the Council. Persons joining any of the Federated Institutes during the financial year of the Federated Institution shall be entitled to all publications issued for that year, after his election is notified to the Secretary, and the instalment or instalments due on his behalf have been paid.

IV. ELECTION OF OFFICERS AND COUNCIL.

13.—The officers of the Institution, other than the Secretary and Treasurer, shall consist of Councillors elected annually prior to August in each year, by and out of the Ordinary Members and Associate Members of each Federated Institute, in the proportion of one Councillor per forty Ordinary Members or Associate Members thereof; of Vice-Presidents elected by and from the Council at their first meeting in each year on behalf of each Institute, in the proportion of one Vice-President per two hundred Ordinary Members or Associate Members thereof; and of a President elected by and from the Council at their first meeting in each year; who, with the Local Secretaries of each Federated Institute and the Secretary and Treasurer, shall form the Council. All Presidents on retiring from that office shall be ex-officio Vice-Presidents so long as they continue Ordinary Members or Associate Members of any of the Federated Institutes.

14.-In case of the decease, expulsion, or resignation of any officer or officers, the Council may, if they deem it requisite, fill up the vacant office or offices at their next meeting.

V. DUTIES OF OFFICERS AND COUNCIL.

15.-The Council shall represent the Institution and shall act in its name, and shall make such calls upon the Federated Institutes as they may deem necessary, and shall transact all business and examine accounts, authorise payments, and may invest or use the funds in such manner as they may from time to time think fit, in accordance with the objects and Bye-Laws of the Institution.

16. The Council shall decide the question of the admission of any society, and may decree the suspension or expulsion of any Federated Institute for non-payment of subscriptions.

17.-The Council shall decide upon the publication of any co munications. 18.-There shall be three ordinary meetings of the Council in each year, on the same day as, but prior to, the ordinary or annual general meetings of the members. 19. A special meeting of the Council shall be called whenever the President may think fit, or upon a requisition to the Secretary signed by ten or more of its members, or by the President of any of the Federated Institutes. The business transacted at a special meeting of the Council shall be confined to that spectfied in the notice convening it,