(g) For Nominee for election to the Finance Committee of the Trades

House.

(h) For Delegate in the management of the Gorbals Lands.

(8)           That portion of the perforated card referring to the office to be voted on, and containing  names of the Candidates therefor, shall be separated from the remaining portion of the card, and after the voter has placed a X opposite to the name of the Candidate or Candidates for whom he votes, he shall deposit the same in the Ballot Box. 

(9)           In the election for the offices of Deacon and Collector it shall be necessary to have a majority of the Members present and voting-to secure an election, but for the other offices the Candidate or Candidates receiving the highest number of votes shall be deemed elected.

(10)         The Trade shall also have power from time to time to appoint Honorary Life Members of the Master-Court, with all powers of ordinary Members; but the persons so elected must have previously held office in the Master-Court, and shall not exceed three in office at any one time.

(11)         Should a vacancy occur during the year in any office, by death, resignation or disqualification (to be determined by the Master-Court), the same shall be filled up by the Master-Court, at a Meeting called for the purpose so soon after the occurrence of such vacancy as may be practicable.   The Member so elected to such a vacancy shall hold office only until the end of the year then current, but he shall be eligible for re-election by the Incorporation.

VI.-COLLECTOR TO FIND SECURITY

The Collector shall find security for the faithful discharge of his duties to the extent of £100. No disbursements shall be made by the Collector, except to pensioners on the roll, without the authority and sanction of the Master Court.

VII. - THE ELECTON OF CLERK AND OFFICER, AND THEIR RESPECTIVE DUTIES

Besides the Deacon, Collector and Masters, there shall be a Clerk, and if thought advisable, an Officer to the Trade. The Clerk, and also the Officer, if it should be resolved to appoint an Officer, shall be chosen annually by the Members at the Candlemas Court Meeting . It will be the duty of the Clerk to issue circulars by post calling (and to attend) all the meetings, and give professional advice; to take and keep regular minutes of the business transacted at meetings of the Trade and Master-Court, and prepare any bond which may be required from the Collector.   The duty of the Officer, if appointed, will be to attend all meetings of the Incorporation and Master Court, and to carry the Incorporation Box, Books, and Papers to and from the places of meetings, and to keep the door of the places of meeting, and to open and shut it for the entrance and retirement of the Members, and to perform any other duties required of him by the Deacon.

VIII. - SALARIES TO CLERK AND OFFICER

The Clerk and Officer, beside the fees payable at the entry of Members, shall each be allowed such a salary as may be fixed by The Master-Court from time to time.

IX. –MEETINGS

Besides the Meeting for the Election of the Deacon, Collector, and Masters, there shall be Two Meetings Annually - one in the first week of February, to be called the Candlemas Court; and one in the first or second week of August, as may be found most convenient, to be called the Lammas Court. The Deacon shall have it in his power to call any meetings he may think proper; and he shall be obliged to call other meetings of the Incorporation, on being required to do so by any eight qualified Members, on any business lawfully connected with the Incorporation which shall be specified in the requisition, and that within six days after receiving such requisition, to be held within ten days thereafter. The Members of the Incorporation within the United Kingdom whose names are on the Qualified Roll and whose addresses are known, and of the Master-Court, shall be warned to the several Meetings of the Trade, whether called on requisition or not, and also the Master Court respectively, by circulars written or printed, or printed and written where blanks occur in the printing – posted by the Clerk at least twenty-four hours before each meeting, which shall be verified by him at the commencement of each meeting. In the absence of the Deacon, the Deacon last in office present shall take the chair; and failing a former Deacon being present, the chair shall be taken by the senior Member of the Master-Court present. The Chairman, both at the meetings of the Incorporation and of the Master-Court shall have a deliberative vote, and also a casting vote in cases of equality.

X. - ENTRANTS AND ENTRY-MONEY

The parties entitled, subject always to these regulations, to enter at the Near-Hand shall be the wives, husbands, sons, daughters, sons-in-law and daughters-in-law of Members. An Applicant for Admission to Membership whether at the Near-Hand or Far-Hand must be a British Subject. The ages of Applicants shall always be reckoned as at the birthday next ensuing after the date of the Meeting at which their entry is carried through and in the event of parties not being able to furnish official Certificates of Birth certifying their ages it shall be in the discretion of the Master-Court to require such proof of the fact as may be considered reasonable in the circumstances. 

Each individual applying for admission, shall before admission, make payment of a sum of money as hereinafter provided:-

Near Hand           Up to age 40         £65.00
                              Over age 40           £80.00

Far Hand              Up to age 40          £80.00
                              Over age 40            £100.00

as the total Entry Monies payable to the Incorporation, such sums being payable regardless of whether the applicant already possesses a Burgess Certificate. An Incorporation tie, or equivalent, shall be awarded free of charge to all new Members.

No person shall be admissible as a Member who does not produce evidence of his being a Trades or Merchant Burgess or Guild Brother of the City of Glasgow. It shall not be competent to admit any person as a Member at the Far-Hand, unless his application shall have endorsed thereon a certificate subscribed by two Members of the Incorporation to the effect that the applicant is in their opinion eligible. Every applicant whether at the Near-Hand or Far-Hand, must before admission be approved by the majority of the Master-Court present when he is proposed for admission and the Master-Court shall have absolute power to admit or reject the applicant without reason assigned or given.

XI. – MANAGEMENT AND INVESTMENT OF FUNDS

The funds of the Incorporation shall be managed under the direction and superintendence of the Master-Court, of whom any five shall be a quorum. The Master-Court in the investment of the funds shall have all the powers and privileges which by the Law of Scotland are or shall be conferred on gratuitous Trustees. The securities for any investment shall be taken either (1) in the names of the Deacon and Collector for the time being and their successors in office for behoof of the Incorporation, or (2) in the name of the Incorporation of Masons of Glasgow. All deeds and writs, obligations and documents, to be granted by the Incorporation shall, according to use and wont, be subscribed on behalf of the Incorporation by the Deacon and Collector for the time being. The Seal of the Incorporation shall not be affixed to any document except by the authority of the Deacon and the Collector, and in presence of either the Deacon or the Collector, and of the Clerk of the Incorporation, or (if the Clerk be not available at the time) such other person as the Deacon and the Collector may appoint for the purpose; and the Deacon and Collector shall sign every document to which the Seal of the Incorporation is so affixed.

XII. – POWER TO BORROW

In the event of the Incorporation purchasing any lands or other heritable property, and requiring funds to pay the price or part thereof, the Incorporation shall be entitled to borrow such sum or sums of money on the security of such lands or other heritable property so purchased, or of the funds and property of the Incorporation generally, as may be authorised by a General Meeting of the Incorporation; and the Deacon and Collector for the time being (who according to use and wont grant all deeds and obligations by the Incorporation) shall have power to grant bonds and dispositions in security containing all usual and necessary clauses, and any other deed or deeds necessary to make the security or securities effectual to the lender or lenders. It is specially provided that the lender or lenders shall have no concerns with the application of the sum or sums to be borrowed, but shall be sufficiently exonered and discharged of the same by the receipt of the Deacon and Collector for the time being on behalf of the Incorporation.

XIII. – NOT LAWFUL TO DIVIDE FUNDS, OR ENCROACH ON CAPITAL

It shall not be lawful for the Incorporation to divide or distribute the Incorporation Funds, or to encroach permanently upon the present Capital, but provided that it shall be lawful for the Incorporation to dispone and convey without consideration their pro indiviso share in and to the Trades Hall, Glassford Street, Glasgow to a Charitable Trust or other similar body formed for the purpose of preserving the said Trades Hall.

XIV. – APPLICATION OF FUNDS

The funds of the Incorporation shall be applied exclusively for charitable and benevolent purposes, and principally in giving pensions to the widows and widowers of the deceased Members, in giving aid to indigent or decayed Members, and to children of deceased Members (including children adopted in pursuance of an adoption order) who may be in needful circumstances, or for aids by donations or otherwise to public institutions and benevolent objects; and for the promotion of public measures for the advantage of the Trades House and this Incorporation, and the good of the community as authorised.

XV. – COLLECTOR TO KEEP CASH BOOK

The Collector shall keep a Cash Book, in which shall be regularly entered the sums received and paid by him on behalf of the Incorporation. That book shall be supplied by and shall be the property of the Incorporation, and shall be open at all times to the inspection of every Member of the Master-Court, or qualified Member of the Incorporation having the authority of the Deacon. The Collector shall not retain more of the funds of the Incorporation in his hands than shall, from time to time, be fixed by the Master-Court of the Incorporation; and all sums beyond that amount, not otherwise invested, shall be deposited in such Chartered or Joint-Stock Bank in Glasgow as the Master-Court shall fix in the name of the Deacon, Collector, Late Deacon, Late Collector and their successors or their agents for and on behalf of the Incorporation and all documents relating to the funds so deposited shall be sufficiently authenticated if signed by the Deacon, Collector, Late Deacon and Late Collector for the time being, or any two of them.

XVI. – ANNUAL ACCOUNT TO BE MADE UP BY COLLECTOR

The Collector, shall annually, as at the 30th day of June in each year, make up an account of his intromissions with the funds of the Incorporation, showing the revenue and expenditure of the Incorporation for the preceding year, which shall be accompanied by a stock account, showing the whole funds and property belonging to the Trade, and debts due to and by it. That Account, after having been duly audited along with the vouchers thereof, shall be submitted to the examination of the Master-Court at a Meeting called for the purpose; and shall, along with their report thereon, be laid upon the table, and read at the General Meeting of the Incorporation for Choosing the Deacon and other Office-bearers for the ensuing year.

XVII. – AUDITOR

In each year the Master-Court of the Incorporation shall appoint an Auditor who shall be a Chartered Accountant and who may or may not be a Member of the Incorporation who shall audit the Collector’s Accounts for the current year. The remuneration to be paid to the Auditor shall be fixed from time to time by the Master-Court.

XVIII. – MASTER-COURT TO HAVE THE PRIVILEGE TO RECOMMEND PENSIONERS ON THE FUNDS OF THE TRADES HOUSE

As heretofore the Master-Court shall have the privilege of recommending one or more persons as pensioners on the funds of the Trades House, according to the enactments made or to be made by the Trades House to that effect; and in such recommendation the Master-Court shall certify that the person recommended is a Trade Burgess, or has paid the Matriculation Fee exigible upon Entry to the Trades House and is a qualified Member of the Incorporation – and whether he has or has not held the office of Deacon of the Incorporation, or its representative in the Trades House; or is the widow or unmarried daughter of a qualified Member, who was a Trades Burgess, or had paid that Matriculation Fee; and shall also certify his or her age.

XIX. – APPLICATION FOR PENSIONS, ETC.

Pensions, or other aid from the funds, shall be awarded by the Master-Court, on petitions from the applicants. The application must be lodged with the Clerk, who will submit them to the next Meeting of the Master-Court, when two Members of the Master-Court will be appointed to enquire and report upon the case, and the application will be disposed of at the following Meeting of the Master-Court without prejudice to temporary aid being given in the meantime. No person shall be entitled to demand enrolment or pecuniary aid of any kind, and the pension shall be payable during the will and pleasure of the Incorporation or Master-Court, and shall be an alimentary provision not liable to the affected by their deeds or attached for their debts.

XX. – APPLICATION FOR ADMISSION TO INFIRMARIES, ETC.

Applications for admission to the Infirmaries, Hospitals, Convalescent Homes and any other Institutions to which the Incorporation may subscribe, shall be made to the Deacon, who is authorised to grant orders of admission to the extent of the patronage enjoyed by the Incorporation.

XXI. – ALTERATION OF REGULATIONS

It shall not be competent to make any alteration on these Rules and Regulations until the same shall have been entertained at a General Meeting of the Incorporation, and approved of by a majority of duly qualified Members present at a subsequent General Meeting, to be called at the distance of not less than one month from the date of the proposal, for the special purpose of considering and adopting or rejecting the proposed alteration, with or without modification and amendments; and particularly it shall not be competent to alter any rule or make any new rule or regulation having in view the dissolution of the Incorporation or the appropriation of its funds or any part thereof to other purpose than those hereinbefore described.

XXII. – COPIES OF RULES

Each entrant shall be furnished at entry with a Copy of these Rules.

XXIII – INTERPRETATION

All references to the masculine gender in these Bye-Laws shall include reference to the feminine gender and vice versa.