36. The Council may meet together for the dispatch of business, adjourn or otherwise regulate their meetings as the Members thereof may think fit. The quorum at meetings of the Council for the transaction of business shall be seven Members entitled to vote. Unless otherwise fixed by the Council the quorum at the meetings of every committee of the Council shall be three. Questions arising at meetings of the Council or of any committee shall be decided by a majority of votes. In case of an equality of votes at meetings of the Council or any committee the Chairman shall have a second or casting vote. The continuing Members of the Council may act notwithstanding any vacancy in their body.
37. The President shall preside at all meetings of the Council, but if at any time there be no President or if at any meeting the President be not present within five minutes after the time appointed for holding the same or be not willing to act, the First Vice-President, or failing him the Second Vice-President, shall preside at such meeting, or if neither Vice-President is present and willing to act the Members present shall choose some one of their number to preside at such meeting, and the person so chosen shall preside at such meeting accordingly.
38. All acts bona fide done by the Council or by any committee of the Council shall be valid notwithstanding that it be afterwards discovered that there was some defect in the appointment of the Council or committee or of some Member or Members thereof, or that any Member of such Council or committee was not duly qualified to act.
39. The Council shall cause minutes to be duly entered in books provided for the purpose:
and any such minutes of any meeting, if purporting to be signed by the Chairman of such meeting, or by the Chairman of the next succeeding meeting, shall be sufficient evidence, without any further proof, of the matters stated in such minutes.