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person elected a Resident Fellow shall neglect for one year to pay his 

 admission fee, his election shall be void ; and, if any Resident Fellow 

 shall neglect to pay his annual assessments for two years, provided 

 that his attention shall have been called to this article, he shall be 

 deemed to have abandoned his Fellowship ; but it shall be in the 

 power of the Treasurer, with the consent of the Council, to dispense 

 (sub silenlio) with the payment both of the admission fee and of the 

 assessments, whenever in any special instance he shall think it advisa- 

 ble so to do. 



3. 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 meeting previous 

 to that when the balloting takes place, it shall be referred to a Council 

 for Nomination ; and a written approval, authorized and s'gned 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. 



4. Foreign Honorary Members shall be chosen only afcer a nomi- 

 nation 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 elec- 

 tion 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 num- 

 ber 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 Council for Nomination. 



7. If, in the opinion of a majority of the entire Council, any Fellow 

 — Resident or Associate — shall have rendered himself unworthy of 

 a place in the Academy, the Council shall recommend to the Academy 

 the termination of his Fellowship ; and, provided that a majority ol; 

 two thirds of the Fellows at a stated meeting, consisting of not less 

 than fifty Fellows, shall adopt this recommendation, his name shall be 

 stricken off the roll of Fellows. 



