654 STATUTES OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



STANDING VOTES 



1. Communications of which notice has been given to either of the 

 Secretaries shall take precedence of those not so notified. 



2. Fellows may take from the Library six volumes at any one 

 time, and may retain them for three months, and no longer. Upon 

 special application, and for adequate reasons assigned, the Libra- 

 rian may permit a larger number of volumes, not exceeding twelve, 

 to be drawn from the Library for a limited period. 



3. Works published in numbers, when unbound, shall not be taken 

 from the Hall of the Academy without the leave of the Librarian. 



4. The Council, under such rules respecting nominations as it 

 may prescribe, may elect as Associates of the Academy a limited 

 number of men of mark in affairs or of distinguished service in the 

 community. 



Associates shall be entitled to the same privileges as Fellows, but 

 shall not have the right to vote. 



The admission fee and annual dues of Associates shall be the same 

 as those of Fellows residing within fifty miles of Boston. 



5. Communications offered for publication in the Proceedings or 

 Memoirs of the Academy shall not be accepted for publication before 

 the author shall have informed the Committee on Meetings of his 

 readiness, either himself or through some agent, to use such time as the 

 Committee may assign him at such meeting as may be convenient both 

 to him and to the Committee, for the purpose of presenting to the 

 Academy a general statement of the nature and significance of the 

 results contained in his communication. 



