VI.— Every Candidate for Meinbersliip, other than Original Election of 

 Members of the Club, shall be proposed by two or more Members. 

 Members, who shall sign a Certificate (see Appendix) in 

 recommendation of him or her, one at least of the proposers 

 so certifying from personal knowledge. The Certificate 

 shall be read fi'om the Chair at the Ordinary Meeting follow- 

 ing its receipt by the Secretary, and the Candidate baUoted 

 for at the next following Meeting (not being a Field Meet- 

 ing), one black ball in six to exclude. [Persons joining the 

 Club upon or within two Calendar months from its establish- 

 ment shall thereupon be considered Original Members.] 



VII. — The Annual Subscription for Ordinary Members gvibscrintion 

 shall be ten shillings and sixpence, payable immediately 

 after their election, and afterwards becoming due in advance 

 on the first day of January in each year ; but Members 

 elected within two months before the thirty-first day of 

 December shall be exempt fi'om the payment of subscription 

 for the year in which they are elected. (Members residing 

 beyond a radius of fifteen miles from the Head-quarters of 

 the Club shall not be called upon to pay more than an 

 Annual Subscription of seven shiUings and sixpence.) No 

 Member shall be entitled to any of the privileges of the Club 

 whose subscription is twelve months in arrear ; and any 

 Member whose subscription is two years in arrear may be 

 excluded from the Club by the Council. 



VIII. — The Honorary Members shall be ladies or gentle- Honorarv 

 men of eminence in Natural Science or Archaeology, or who Members, 

 shall have done special service to the Club, and whose usual 

 place of residence is not in the County of Essex ; and they shall 

 be elected only at a General Meeting by the Members upon 

 the recommendation of the Council, not more than five to 

 be elected in any one year. No subscription or other 

 payment shall be required from the Honorary Members. 



IX. — Any Ordinary Member may compound for his or Componnding 

 her Annual Subscripton by a single payment of £5 5s. : all q , ^i''' . 



