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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, 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 

 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 com- 

 municate with the Council thereon. 



12. The election of Fellows 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, 

 together with a copy of the Rules of the Institute and a List of the Fellows and Asso- 

 ciates. But no election of a Fellow shall be complete, neither shall the name of any 

 person so elected be printed in any list of the Institute, nor shall he be entitled to 

 exercise any of the privileges of a Fellow until he shall have paid his first year's sub- 

 scription, and his admission fee, or shall have compounded 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. 



14. Gentlemen resident in the Colonies or India, or elsewhere out of the United 

 Kingdom, being British subjects, may be elected as Non-Resident Fellows in the 

 same manner as Resident Fellows. Should any such Non-Resident Fellow come 

 to the United Kingdom permanently to reside, he shall be required to pay an ad- 

 mission fee of Three Pounds (less the sum, if any, paid by him as an admission fee on 

 election as a Non-Resident Fellow), and become a Resident Fellow of the Institute ; 

 but the last mentioned additional fee shall not be payable by any such Non-Resident 

 Fellow of fifteen years standing or upwards. 



15. The Council shall have the power of appointing as Honorary Fellows, Foreigners 

 or Colonists of distinction, or other persons, whose association with the Institute may 

 be considered advantageous ; but such Honorary Fellows shall not be entitled to vote 

 nor fill any office in the Institute. 



16. Any Fellow may withdraw from the Institute by signifying his wish to do so 

 by letter, addressed to the Secretary at the rooms of the Institute ; provided always 

 that such Fellow shall continue to be liable for his annual subscription for the year 

 in which he signifies his wish to withdraw. He shall further continue liable for such 

 annual subscription until he shall have discharged all sums, if any, due by him to the 

 Institute, and shall have returned all books or other property borrowed by him of the 

 Institute ; or shall have made full compensation for the same, if lost or not forth- 

 coming. 



17. The name of the Institute shall not be used as an address on any circular letter, 



