xxiv Bye-Laws of the Linnean Society. 
CHAPTER XII. 
Of the Clerk, Librarian, and Housekeeper. 
Sect. I. The Person who shall be chosen to any one or to all 
of these Offices, to which Salaries or Emoluments are to be 
annexed, shall either not be a Fellow of the Society ; or, if a 
Fellow, shall cease to be so, upon his Election to, and Accept- 
ance of, any such Office; as no Fellow of the Society is, or 
shall be, capable of holding any Place, Office, or Appointment 
under the Society, to which any Salary, Profit, or Emolument, 
is or shall be annexed. 
II. He shall be competently skilled in Languages and Natural 
Knowledge, and able to write a fair and legible Hand. 
III. The Election of a Person or Persons, to fill one or all of 
the Situations above mentioned, shall be by the Fellows, in the 
following Manner : viz. The Names of the several Candidates, if 
more than one, shall be printed, and delivered to every Fellow 
attending the Election ; each of whom shall take off the Name of 
such Candidate as he may desire to vote for, and (after having had 
his own Name marked in a List of the Fellows of the Society by 
the Secretary, assisted by Two Scrutators, to be appointed in the 
same Manner as at the Anniversary Elections) shall deliver the 
Name of the Candidate so taken off, and folded up, into the 
Hands of the President, who, in the Presence of the Society, 
shall put the several Names into a Vessel appropriated for that 
Purpose; and the Candidate who shall be found to have the 
Majority of Votes, shall be deemed duly elected. 
IV. The Person, or Persons, who may be appointed to any, 
or all of the said Offices, shall be paid such Salary and Allowances 
as 
