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nomination list at least ten weeks, 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 

 one so elected, who shall have resided out of the Commonwealth for 

 the term of five years, and shall have discontinued the payment of his 

 assessments during that time, shall be deemed to have abandoned his 

 fellowship ; provided, nevertheless, 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." 



It was also voted that the 1st Section of Chapter X. be 

 amended so as to read as follows : — 



" All proposed alterations of the Statutes, or additions to them, shall 

 be referred to a committee, and on their report at a subsequent meet- 

 ing, shall require for enactment a majority of two thirds of the members 

 present, and at least eighteen affirmative votes." 



The following additions to the Standing Votes of the Acad- 

 emy were also passed. 



To be added to the second Vote : — 



" And the current issues of the Proceedings shall be supplied, when 

 ready for publication, free of charge, to all the Fellows and Members 

 of the Academy, who desire to receive them." 



New Vote, to be the third in order : — 



" The Committee of Publication shall fix from time to time the price 

 at which the publications of the Academy may be sold. But members 

 may be supplied at half this price with volumes which they are not 

 entitled to receive free, and which are needed to complete their sets." 



New Vote, to be the fourth : — 



" One hundred extra copies of each paper accepted for the Memoirs 

 of the Academy shall be separately printed, of which fifty shall be 

 placed at the disposal of the author, free of charge." 



Dr. J. B. Upham of Boston was elected a Fellow in Class 

 II., Section 4. 



