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Day following. And each Anniversary Meeting shall also be 
advertised in Two or more of the public Newspapers, at least One 
Week before the same take place. 
II. The Council for the Time being shall, before the Day 
of Election, cause to be prepared a sufficient Number of print- 
ed Balloting-Lists, according-te^the annexed Forms ; One of 
which (No. I.) is to contain the Names of such Persons as they 
shall recommend to be removed from and elected into the 
Council, and the other (No. II.) to contain the Names of such 
Persons as they shall recommend to fill the Offices of President, 
Treasurer, and Secretary, for the ensuing Year. 
III. On the Day of Election the President, or in his Absence 
the senior Vice-President present, shall take the Chair precisely 
at One o'Clock, P M. and shall immediately open the Business 
of the Day; Two Balloting-Glasses being placed before the Chair. 
One of those Glasses shall remain open for receiving Lists for the 
Council until Half past Two o'Clock, and the other Glass shall 
remain open for receiving Lists for the Officers until Three 
o'CIock, P. M., at which respective Times the Ballots shall be 
closed. 
IV. Balloting-Lists shall be delivered to every Fellow who 
shall apply for them ; and if any Fellow should not approve of 
the Persons therein named, but be desirous of giving his Vote for 
some other Person or Persons, he will strike his Pen across the 
printed Name or Names of the Person or Persons of whom he may 
disapprove, and will write over against such printed Name or 
Names on the blank Side left and prepared for that Purpose, the 
Name or Names of the other Person or Persons for whom he 
may be desirous to give his Vote. 
V. Each Fellow voting shall deliver his Balloting- List or Lists, 
folded up, to the President or Vice-President in the Chair, who 
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