AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. vil 
4. Foreign Honorary Members shall be chosen only after a nomination made at a meeting of 
the Council, signed at the time by at least seven of its members, and read at a stated meeting 
previous to that on which the balloting takes place. 
5. Three fourths of the ballots cast must be affirmative, and the number of affirmative ballots 
must amount to eleven, to effect an election of Fellows or Foreign Honorary Members. 
6. Each section of the Academy is empowered to present lists of persons deemed best qualified 
to fill vacancies occurring in the number of Foreign Honorary Members or Associate Fellows 
allotted to it; and such lists, after being read at a stated meeting, shall be referred to the Coun- 
cil for Nomination. 
CHAPTER X. 
Or AMENDMENTS OF THE STATUTES. 
1. All proposed alterations of the statutes, or additions to them, shall be referred to a com- 
mittee during the interval between two stated meetings, and shall require for enactment a major- 
ity of two thirds of the members present, and at least eighteen affirmative votes. 
2. Standing Votes may be passed, amended, or rescinded, at any stated meeting, by a majority 
of two thirds of the members present. They may be suspended by a unanimous vote. 
CHAPTER XI. 
Or LITERARY PERFORMANCES. 
1. The Academy will not express its judgment on literary or scientific memoirs or perform- 
ances submitted to it, or included in its publications. 
