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oa the day of tlie Annual Meeting. Any Voting List on which a Fellow has voted 

 for a number, either more or less, than the necessary number of persons to fill up 

 the vacancies in the offices of President, Vice-Presidents, Treasurer, and Councillors 

 respectively, shall be rejected by the Scrutineers. The notice of Meeting and the 

 Voting List shall be in the form set forth in the Schedule to these Rules, or as near 

 thereto as may be. 



66. The chair shall be taken at the hour appointed in the Notice of the Meeting, 

 or as soon thereafter as twenty Fellows shall be present. 



Associates. 



67. Ladies being British subjects wherever resident, and gentlemen being British 

 subjects resident in the United Kingdom, may be admitted to the enjoyment of the 

 following privileges connected with the Institute, but shall not be corporate Members 

 or Fellows. They shall be called Associates and shall be entitled to receive a copy 

 of the Monthly Journal of the Institute ; to attend any meeting held for the reading 

 of papers, any Provincial Conferences of the Institute, and the Annual Conversazione, 

 but they shall not be entitled to attend any Annual or Special General Meeting. 



68. The election of Associates is intrusted to the Council, and every candidate 

 desiring to become an Associate must be proposed by a Fellow or Associate from 

 personal knowledge according to form No. 2 in the Appendix hereto. 



69. Every Associate shall on election and on every succeeding 1st day of January 

 pay £1 as his or her annual subscription for the current year ending on the 3lst Decom- 

 ber next ensuing or may compound for such subscription by the payment of Ten 

 Pounds. 



70. The provisions contained in the under-mentioned Rules shall apply to Associate s, 

 but nothing in this or any other Rule shall confer upon Associates any privileges 

 beyond those conferred by Rule 67. The Rules specially last above referred to are 

 Nos. 13, 16, 17, 18, 25, 26. and 27. 



Alteration op Rules. 



71. Any alteration in these Rules, recommended by the Council, may be proposed 

 at the Annual Meeting, or may be submitted at any Ordinary or Special Meeting, 

 notice thereof having been given under the provisions of Rule 55, provided that such 

 proposed alteration shall have been exhibited in a conspicuous place in the Rooms of 

 the Institute, for at least one calendar month previous to the Meeting at which it shall 

 be submitted. 



72. Any twenty-five Fellows may propose to the Council any new Rule, or the 

 alteration or repeal of any existing Rule, by letter addressed to the Secretary ; and, 

 if dissatisfied with the answer oi the Council, they may require that their proposition 

 be referred to a Special General Meeting, which the Council shall convene for that 

 purpose within one calendar month after receiving such requisition. 



73. No repeal or alteration of any of these Rules, nor addition thereto, shall be 

 considered valid unless concurred in by three-fourths of the Fellows present and voting 

 in each case. , 



