608 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



On the recommendation of the Committee of Finance, it was 



Voted, To appropriate from the income of the General Fund 

 two thousand, dollars ($2000) for general expenses. 



Voted, That the assessment for the ensuing year be five dollars. 



On the recommendation of the committee to whom certain 

 alterations of the Statutes were referred at the meeting of 

 December 12, 1900, it was 



Voted, To amend the Statutes as follows : — 



Ch. I., Sec. 1, first sentence. "The Academy consists of Resident 

 Fellows, Associate Fellows, and Foreign Honorary Members." 



Ch. I., Sec. 2. " The number of Resident Fellows shall not exceed 

 two hundred. Only residents in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 

 shall be eligible to election as Resident Fellows, but resident fellowship 

 may be retained after removal from the Commonwealth. Each Resident 

 Fellow shall pay an admission fee of ten dollars and such annual assess- 

 ment, not exceeding ten dollars, as shall be voted by the Academy at each 

 annual meeting. Resident Fellows only may vote at the meetings of the 

 Academy." 



Ch. I., Sec. 3. " The number of Associate Fellows shall not exceed 

 one hundred, of whom there shall not be more than forty in either of the 

 three classes of the Academy. Associate Fellows shall be chosen from 

 persons residing outside of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. They 

 shall not be liable to the payment of any fees or annual dues, but on re- 

 moving within the Commonwealth they may be transferred by the Coun- 

 cil to resident fellowship as vacancies there occur." 



Ch. I., Sec. 4. Omit " And " at the beginning of last sentence. 



Ch. II., Sec. 2, first sentence. " At the Annual Meeting of 1901, nine 

 Councillors shall be elected by ballot, one from each class of the Academy 

 to serve for one year, one from each elass for two years, and one from 

 each class for three years ; and at annual meetings thereafter three Coun- 

 cillors shall be elected in the same manner, one from each class, to serve 

 for three years ; but the same Fellow shall not be eligible for two succes- 

 sive terms." 



Ch. II., Sec. 2, second sentence. Change " These " to " The." At 

 end of this sentence add : " Five members shall constitute a quorum." 



Ch. V., Sec. 5. " The Committee of Publication, of three Fellows, 

 one from each Class, to whom all communications submitted to the 

 Academy for publication shall be referred, and to whom the printing of 

 the Memoirs and the Proceedings shall be intrusted." 



