CHAPTER IX LOCAL CHAPTER Houses to Be Joined 247It is required that at least four perpetually professed members reside in a house for a local Chapter to be celebrated there. If the houses do not have four perpetually professed members, the members of the houses are united with each other or with a larger house to hold the local chapter. The Provincial Superior, with the consent of his Council, decides which houses should be joined and in what manner. (C 274) CM 747 Elections of Delegates Outside the Chapter 248If a great distance separates houses to be joined, thus making it difficult for their members to assemble in order to elect delegates for the Provincial Chapter, the elections should take place by ballots which are to be sent from each house to the Provincial Council. Individual electors of such houses should write the name of the member for whom they decided to vote on a ballot, which they should fold well. Then, gathered together with the local Superior, the electors place their ballots in a common envelope, which is to be sealed in the presence of all by the Superior and sent to the Provincial Council. The Provincial Superior or his substitute, in the presence of at least two Council members, is to open the ballots, promulgate the names of those elected, and, if necessary, see to it that the elections be repeated. (C 274) CM 748 Proposals for the Provincial Chapter 249 Each confrere can submit in writing to the delegates elected for the Provincial Chapter matters, requests, wishes, and projects that he considers in the Lord as appropriate for submission to the Provincial Chapter. (C 274) CM 750 Structure and Government 251
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