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the Commonwealth. Each Resident Fellow shall pay an admission fee 

 of ten dollars and such annual assessment, not exceeding ten dollars, 

 as shall be voted by the Academy at each annual meeting. Resident 

 Fellows only may vote at the meetings of the Academy. 



3. The number of Associate Fellows shall not exceed one hundred, 

 of whom there shall not be more than forty in either of the three classes 

 of the Academy. Associate Fellows shall be chosen from persons resid- 

 ing outside of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. They shall not be 

 liable to the payment of any fees or annual dues, but on removing within 

 the Commonwealth they may be transferred by the Council to resident 

 fellowship as vacancies there occur. 



4. The number of Foreign Honorary Members shall not exceed 

 seventy-five ; and they shall be chosen from among persons most eminent 

 in foreign countries for their discoveries and attainments in either of the 

 three departments of knowledge above enumerated. There shall not be 

 more than thirty Foreign Members in either of these departments. 



CHAPTER II. 

 Of Officers. 



1. There shall be a President, three Vice-Presidents, one for each 

 Class, a Corresponding Secretary, a Recording Secretary, a Treasurer, 

 and a Librarian, which officers shall be annually elected, by ballot, at 

 the annual meeting, on the second Wednesday in May. 



2. There shall be nine Councillors, chosen from the Resident Fellows. 

 At each annual meeting, three Councillors shall be chosen, by ballot, 

 one from each Class, to serve for three years ; but the same Fellow shall 

 not be eligible for two successive terms. The nine Councillors, with the 

 President, the three Vice-Presidents, the two Secretaries, the Treasurer, 

 and the Librarian, shall constitute the Council. Five members shall 

 constitute a quorum. It shall be the duty of this Council to exercise a 

 discreet supervision over all nominations and elections. With the con- 

 sent of the Fellow interested, they shall have power to make transfers 

 between the several sections of the same Class, reporting their action to 

 the Academy. 



3. The Council shall at its March Meeting receive reports from the 

 Rumford Committee, the C. M. Warren Committee, the Committee on 

 Publication, the Committee on the Library, the President and Record- 



