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place, it shall be referred to a Council for Nomination ; and 

 a written approval, authorized and signed at a meeting of 

 said Council by at least seven of its members, shall be requi- 

 site to entitle the candidate to be balloted for. The Council 

 may in like manner originate nominations of Associate Fel- 

 lows ; which must be read at a stated meeting previous to 

 the election, and be exposed on the nomination list during the 

 interval. 



4. Foreign Honorary Members shall be chosen only after a 

 nomination made at a meeting of the Council, signed at the 

 time by at least seven of its members, and read at a stated 

 meeting previous to that on which the balloting takes place. 



5. Three-fourths of the ballots cast must be affirmative, 

 and the number of affirmative ballots must amount to eleven, 

 to effect an election of Fellows or Foreign Honorary Mem- 

 bers. 



6. Each section of the Academy is empowered to present 

 lists of persons deemed best qualified to fill vacancies occur- 

 ring in the number of Foreign Honorary Members or Associ- 

 ate Fellows allotted to it ; and such lists, after being read at 

 a stated meeting, shall be referred to the Council for Nomi- 

 nation. 



7. If, in the opinion of a majority of the entire Council, any 

 Fellow — Resident or Associate — shall have rendered him- 

 self unworthy of a place in the Academy, the Council shall 

 recommend to the Academy the termination of his Fellow- 

 ship ; and, provided that a majority of two-thirds of the Fel- 

 lows at a stated meeting, consisting of not less than fifty 

 Fellows, voting by ballot yea or nay, shall adopt this recom- 

 mendation, his name shall be stricken off the roll of Fellows. 



CHAPTER X. 



OF AMENDMENTS OF THE STATUTES. 



1. All proposed alterations of the Statutes, or additions to 

 them, shall be referred to a committee, and, on their report at 

 a subsequent meeting, shall require for enactment a majority 



