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Vi STATUTES OF THE 
be held in the Hall of the Academy, in Boston. At these meetings only, or at meetings ad- 
journed from these and regularly notified, shall appropriations of money be made, or alterations 
of the statutes or standing votes of the Academy be effected. 
2. Fifteen Fellows shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at a stated meet- 
ing. Seven Fellows shall be sufficient to constitute a meeting for scientific communications and 
discussions. 
3. The Recording Secretary shall notify the meetings of the Academy to each Fellow residing 
in Boston and the vicinity ; and he may cause the meetings to be advertised, whenever he deems 
such further notice to be needful. 
CHAPTER IX. 
Or THE ELECTION OF FELLOWS AND HONORARY MEMBERS. 
1. Elections shall be made by ballot, and only at the stated meetings in May, November, and 
January. 
2. Candidates for election as Resident Fellows must be proposed by two or more Resident 
Fellows, in a recommendation signed by them, specifying the Section to which the nomination is 
made; which recommendation shall be read at a stated meeting, and then stand on the nomina- 
tion list during the interval between two stated meetings, and until the balloting. No person 
shall be elected a Resident Fellow, unless he shall have been resident in this Commonwealth one 
year next preceding his election; and any Resident Fellow, hereafter elected, who shall reside 
out of the Commonwealth for the term of five years, and shall discontinue the payment of his 
assessments during that time, shall be deemed to have abandoned his fellowship; provided, nev- 
ertheless, that this abandonment of fellowship for non-residence shall not apply to persons 
engaged in the service of the State, or of the United States. 
8. The nomination of Associate Fellows shall take place in the manner prescribed in reference 
to Resident Fellows; and after such nomination shall have been publicly read at a stated meet- 
ing previous to that when the balloting takes place, it shall be referred to a Council for Nomina- 
tion; and a written approval, authorized and signed at a meeting of said Council by at least 
seven of its members, shall be requisite to entitle the candidate to be balloted for. The Council 
may in like manner originate nominations of Associate Fellows; which must be read at a stated 
meeting previous to the election, and be exposed on the nomination list during the interval. 
