they are named shall then ballot for the several candidates in succes- 

 sion; a white ball being considered in favour of the candidate. 



6. After all the other business of the meeting shall have been dis- 

 posed of, the boxes shall be opened and the result of the poll declared 

 by the presiding member. 



7. The members are mutually pledged not to mention out of the 

 Society the name of any candidate proposed, nor of any withdrawn 

 or unsuccessful candidate; a,nd the papers containing the names of the 

 unsuccessful candidates shall be destroyed immediately after the elec- 

 tion. 



8. Every member, upon his introduction into the Society, shall be 

 presented to the presiding officer, and shall subscribe the laws. 



9. Such members as reside within ten miles of the hall of the 

 Society, and such other members as desire to vote at the meetings 

 and elections, shall pay an admission fee often dollars, and annually 

 thereafter, on the first Friday of January, a contribution of five dollars. 

 The payment of fifty dollars at one time, by a member not in arrears, 

 shall exempt him from all future annual payments. 



10. Members elect, residing within ten miles of the hall, shall lose 

 the right of membership unless they subscribe the laws and pay their 

 admission fee within one year after their election. Any member 

 liable to an annual contribution, who shall neglect or refuse to pay the 

 same for the term of two years, shall be notified by the treasurer in 

 writing, on or before the second Friday in January afier such default, 

 that his rights as a member are suspended ; and, in case the said arrears, 

 together with the contribution due on the first Friday in January after 

 such notice, shall not be paid to the treasurer on or before the said 

 last named day, the ntcmbership of such defaulting member shall be 

 forfeited, his name stricken from the roll, and ref»orted to the Society 

 by the treasurer. 



11. On the Society being informed of the death of a mcnber, the 

 fact shall be entered on the records, and a member may be appointed 

 to prepare an obituary notice of the deceased. 



12. The obituary notices of members shall be read to the Society, 

 and they shall be bound together whenever they are sufficiently nu- 

 merous to form a volume. 



13. The catalogue of the members shall be read at the meeting on 

 the third Friday of January, for the purpose of correction. 



