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them, specifying the Section to which the nomination is made, 

 which recommendation shall be transmitted to the Corresponding 

 Secretary, and by him referred to the Council for Nomination. No 

 person recommended shall be reported by the Council as a candi- 

 date for election, unless he shall have received a written approval, 

 signed at a meeting of the Council by at least eight of its members. 

 All nominations thus approved shall be read to the Academy at a 

 stated meeting, and shall then stand on the nomination 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 who shall remove his domicile 

 from the Commonwealth, shall be deemed to have abandoned his 

 Fellowship. If any 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 assess- 

 ments 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 silentio) with the payment 

 both of the admission fee and of the assessments, whenever in any 

 special instance he shall think it advisable 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 pre- 

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

 a Council for Nomination; and a written approval, authorized and 

 signed at a meeting of said Council by at least seven of its mem- 

 bers, 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 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 pre- 

 vious 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. 



G. Each section of the Academy is empowered to present lists of 

 persons deemed best qualified to fill vacancies occurring in the 



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