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6. The Council shall be chosen from the Fellows, and shall consist of a President, 

 Vice-Presidents, of whom not more than one-third may be selected from Non-Eesident 

 Fellows, twenty-four Councillors, a Treasurer, and a Secretary (when honorary). The 

 Council shall have power to fill up any vacancies occurring in the above offices during 

 the interval between the Annual Meetings ; such ad interim appointments to be subject 

 to confirmation at the next succeeding Annual Meeting. 



7. A portion of the Council shall retire periodically, viz. the President every second 

 year, and one-fourth, or the nearest number thereto and not exceeding the same, of the 

 Vice-Presidents, and one-eighth, or the nearest number thereto and not exceeding the 

 same, of the Councillors every year in rotation ; the names of those so retiring to be 

 previously announced by the Council, as hereinafter provided. The President and 

 Vice-Presidents so retiring shall be eligible for re-election, but the retiring Councillors 

 shall not be eligible for re-election till one year shall have elapsed. 



8. The Vice-Presidents and the Councillors to retire in any year shall be those who 

 have been longest in ofiice. As between two and more who have been in office an equal 

 length of time, the Vice-President or Councillor, as the case may be, to retire, shall be 

 determined by lot. The length of time a Vice-President or Councillor has been in 

 office shall be computed from his last election. In the case of Non-Resident Vice- 

 Presidents, the Council may, if they think it advantageous or desirable, exempt any 

 such Non-Resident Vice-Presidents from such retirement by rotation, but this shall 

 not affect the total number of retirements during any one year. 



9. If any Councillor shall fail to attend the Meetings of the Council for six consecu- 

 tive calendar months, except by leave of the Council, the office of such Councillor shall 

 thereupon become vacant. 



Admission, &c., of Fellows. 



10. Every gentleman, being a British subject, desirous of admission into the 

 Institute as a Fellow, and every lady, being a British subject, desirous of admission 

 to the privileges of an Associate, must be proposed and recommended according to 

 the Form No. 1 in the Appendix hereto ; and such recommendation must be sub- 

 scribed by two Fellows at least, one of whom must certify his personal knowledge 

 and approval of such candidate. 



11. The certificate thus filled up shall be delivered to the Secretary, and shall 

 be exhibited in a conspicuous place in the Rooms of the Institute for at least one 

 week previous to election, in order that any Fellow objecting to the Candidate may 

 communicate with the Council thereon. 



12. The election of Fellows and Associates is entrusted to the Council, and the 

 names of those so elected shall be regularly announced from the chair at each Ordinary 

 Meeting. 



13. Notice of Election shall be sent within three days to every newly elected 

 Fellow or Associate, together with a copy of the Rules of the Institute and a List of 

 the Fellows and Associates. But no election of a Fellow or Associate shall be complete, 

 neither shall the name of any person so elected be printed in any list of the Institute, 

 nor shall he or she be entitled to exercise any of the privileges of a Fellow or Associate, 

 as the case may be, until he or she shall have paid his or her first year's subscription, 

 in the case of a Fellow also his admission fee, or in the case of a Fellow have com- 

 pounded for the same as hereinafter provided for ; and unless these payments be made 

 within three calendar months from the date of election, such election shall be void ; 

 this time may, however, be extended at the discretion of the Council. 



