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has his permanent home in the United Kingdom. A Non-Resident Fellow is a 

 Fellow who has his permanent home outside the United Kingdom. 



3. The Institute shall not make or distribute any gift, dividend, division, or bonus, 

 in money, unto or between any of its Fellows. 



4. The government of the Institute, and the management of all its concerns, are 

 entrusted to the Council, subject to the Rules of the Institute. 



5. Every Resident Fellow shall be eligible to fill any of the offices of the Council. 

 Non-Resident Fellows shall, subject to the provisions of the Rules, be eligible to fill the 

 office of Vice-President. 



6. The Council shd,Il 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-Resident 

 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 office. 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, il they think it advantageous or desirable, exempt any 

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

 not aSect 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, must be proposed and recommended according to the Form 

 No. 1 in the Appendix hereto ; and such recommendation must be subscribed 

 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 exh ibited 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 

 comm unicate with the Council thereon. 



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

 so elec ted 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, together with a copy of the Rules of the Institute and a List of the Fellows 



