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candidate for election, unless he shall have received the approval of at 

 least five members of the Council present at a meeting. All nominations 

 thus approved shall be read to the Academy at any meeting, and shall 

 then stand on the nomination list until the next stated meeting, and until 

 the balloting. No person shall be elected a Resident Fellow, unless he 

 shall have been resident in this Commonwealth one year next preceding 

 his election. If any person elected a Resident Fellow shall neglect for 

 one year to pay his admission fee, his election shall be void; and if any 

 Resident Fellow shall neglect to pay his annual assessments for two 

 years, provided that his attention shall have been called to this article, 

 he shall be deemed to have abandoned his Fellowship ; but it shall be in 

 the power of the Treasurer, with the consent of the Council, to dispense 

 (sub silentio) with the payment both of the admission fee and of the 

 assessments, whenever in any special instance he shall think it advisable 

 so to do. In the case of officers of the Army or Navy who are out of 

 the state on duty, payment of the annual assessment may be waived 

 during such absence if continued during the whole official year and if 

 notification of such absence be sent to the Treasurer. 



3. The nomination and election of Associate Fellows shall take place 

 in the manner prescribed in reference to Resident Fellows. 



4. The nomination and election of Foreign Honorary Members shall 

 take place in the manner prescribed for Resident Fellows, except that 

 the nomination papers shall be signed by at least seven members of the 

 Council before being presented to the Academy. 



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

 number of affirmative ballots must amount to eleven to effect an elec- 

 tion of Fellows or Foreign Honorary Members. 



6. 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 recommendation, his name shall be stricken 

 off the roll of Fellows. 



CHAPTER XL 



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 stated 

 meeting or a special meeting called for the purpose, shall require for 



