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Non-resident Members already elected shall remain as before; but no 

 Ordinary Members shall be chosen in future under the title and with the 

 privileges of Non-resident Members. The Members at present called 

 Non-resident shall have an option of becoming Ordinary Members ; if they 

 decline this, they shall continue Non-resident as formerly. 



X. 



The Foreign Members shall not be subject to the Annual Contribu- 

 tions, nor to any Fee on admission. They shall be limited to the number 

 of Thirty-six, and shall consist of Foreigners distinguished in Science and 



Literature. 



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XI. 



The Honorary Members shall not be subject to the Annual Contri- 

 bution, nor to any Fee on admission. They shall be limited to the num- 

 ber of Twenty-one, and shall consist of Gentlemen eminently distinguished 

 in Science and Literature. 



XII. 



The Election of Members shall take place on the 1st Mondays of every 

 month during the Session, at the ordinary meetings of the Society, which 

 shall be considered as General Meetings for the Election of Members. 

 The election shall be by ballot, and shall be determined by a majority of 

 Two-thirds of the Members, provided Twenty-four Members are pre- 

 sent, and vote. 



XIII. 



No person shall be proposed as an Ordinary Member, without a recom- 

 mendation subscribed by One Ordinary Member, to the purport below *. 



* " A. B. a gentleman well skilled in several branches of Science (or Polite Litera- 

 ture, as the case may be), being to my knowledge desirous of becoming a Member of the 

 Royal Society of Edinburgh, I hereby recommend him as deserving of that honour, and 

 as likely to prove an useful and valuable Member." <( 



