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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 Members. 



6. Each Section of the Academy is empowered to present lists 

 of persons deemed best qualified to fill vacancies occurring in the 

 number of Foreign Honorary Members or Associate Fellows 

 allotted to it ; and such lists, after being read at a stated meeting, 

 shall be referred to the Council for Nomination. 



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

 Fellow — Resident or Associate — shall have rendered himself 

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

 to the Academy the termination of his Fellowship ; and provided 

 that a majority of two thirds of the Fellows at a stated meeting, 

 consisting of not less than fifty Fellows, shall adopt this recom- 

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



CHAPTER XI. 



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 of 

 two thirds of the members present, and at least eighteen affirma- 

 tive votes. 



2. Standing Votes may be passed, amended, or rescinded, at 

 any stated meeting, by a majority of two thirds of the members 

 present. They may be suspended by a unanimous vote. 



CHAPTER XII. 



Of Literary Performances. 



1. The Academy will not express its judgment on literary or 

 scientific memoirs or performances submitted to it, or included in 

 its publications. 



