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All nominations thus received prior to February 15 shall be forth- 

 with sent in printed form to every Fellow, with the names of the pro- 

 posers in each case and a brief account of each nominee, and with 

 the request that the list be returned before March 15, marked to 

 indicate preferences of the voter in such manner as the Council may 

 direct. 



All the nominations, with any comments thereon and with the 

 results of the preferential indications of the Fellows, received by 

 March 15, shall be referred at once to the appropriate Class Commit- 

 tees, which shall report their decisions to the Council, which shall 

 thereupon have power to elect. 



Persons nominated in any year, but not elected, may be placed on 

 the preferential ballot of the next year at the discretion of the Council, 

 but shall not further be continued on the list of nominees unless 

 renominated. 



Notice shall be sent to every Fellow not later than the fifteenth of 

 January, of each year, calling attention to the fact that the limit, of 

 time for sending nominations to the Corresponding Secretary will 

 expire on the fifteenth of February. 



See Chap, ii.; chap. vi. art. 1; chap. ix. art. 1. 



CHAPTER IV 

 Officers 



Article 1. The Officers of the Academy shall be a President (who 

 shall be Chairman of the Council), three Vice-Presidents (one from 

 each Class), a Corresponding Secretary (who shall be Secretary of the 

 Council), a Recording Secretary, a Treasurer, and a Librarian, all of 

 whom shall be elected by ballot at the Annual Meeting, and shall hold 

 their respective offices for one year, and until others are duly chosen 

 and installed. 



There shall be also twelve Councillors, one from each Section of each 

 Class. At each Annual Meeting three Councillors, one from each 

 Class, shall be elected by ballot to serve for the full term of four 

 years and until others are duly chosen and installed. The same Fellow 

 shall not be eligible for two successive terms. 



