384 STATUTES OF THE 



2. Fellows resident in the State of Massachusetts can alone 

 vote at the meetings of the Academy.* They shall each pay 

 to the Treasurer tlie sum of ten dollars on admission, and an 

 annual assessment of ten dollars, with such additional sum, 

 not exceeding five dollars, as the Academy shall, by a stand- 

 ing vote, from time to time determine. 



3. Fellows residing out of the State of Massachusetts shall 

 be known and distinguished as Associate Fellows. They 

 shall not be liable to the payment of any fees or annual dues, 

 but, on removing within the State, shall be admitted to the 

 privileges,! and be subject to the obligations, of Resident 

 Fellows. 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. 



4. The number of Foreign Honorary Members shall not 

 exceed seve7ity-jive ; and they shall be chosen from among 

 persons most eminent in foreign countries for their discoveries 

 and attainments in either of the three departments of knowl- 

 edge above enumerated. And there shall not be more than 

 thirty Foreign Members in either of these departments. 



CHAPTER H. 



OF OFFICERS. 



1. There shall be a President, a Vice-President, a Corre- 

 sponding Secretary, a Recording Secretary, a Treasurer, and 

 a Librarian, which officers shall be annually elected, by writ- 

 ten votes, at the Annual Meeting, on the day next preceding 

 the last Wednesday in May. 



2. At the same time and in the same manner, nine Coun- 

 cillors shall be elected, three from each Class of the Academy, 

 but the same Fellows shall not be eligible for more than three 



* The number of Resident Fellows is limited by the Charter to 200. 

 t Associate Fellows may attend but cannot vote at meetings of the Academy. 

 See Chapter I. 2. 



