Charter of the Linnean Society. 9 



ascertaining the Qualifications of Persons to become Fellows, 

 Honorary Members, Foreign Members, and Associates, of the said 

 Society respectively, and also the Sum and Sums of Money to be 

 paid by them respectively, whether upon Admission or otherwise, 

 towards carrying on the Purposes of the said Society ; And such ^^^ ^^ ^^ijer 

 Bye-Laws, from Time to Time, to vary, alter, or revoke, and make such Bye- 

 such new and other Bye-Laws as they shall think most useful and *^^' 

 expedient, so that the same be not repugnant to these Presents, or 

 to the Laws of this Our Eealm : Provided that no Bye-Law here- but no Bye- 

 after to be made, or Alteration or Eepeal of any Bye-Law which ^^^ shall ^be^' 

 shall hereafter have been established by tlie said Council hereby btnding on the 

 appointed, or by the Council for the time being of the said Society, fj^airhaye been 

 shall be considered to have passed, and be binding on the said confirmed by 

 Society, until such Bye-Law, or such Alteration or Eepeal of any ^^^<^* ^^^^ ^_ 

 Bye- Law, shall have been hung up in the common Meeting-Room ing, 11 Fellows 

 of the said Society, and been read by the President, or by any one ^^ ^®^®^ h^vag 

 of the Vice- Presidents for the time being, at Two successive General 

 Meetings of the said Society, and until the same shall have been 

 confirmed by BaUot, by the Fellows at large of the said Society ; 

 such Ballot to take place at the ensuing Meeting next after such 

 two successive General Meetings of the said Society, EIeven,at least, 

 of the Fellows of the said Society being present ; and provided that 

 no such Bye-Law, or Alteration or Eepeal of any Bye-Law, shall be 

 deemed or taken to pass in the affirmative, unless it shall appear, 

 upon such Ballot, that Two-thirds of the Fellows present at such 

 Meeting shall have voted for the same. Witness His Majesty at 

 "Westminster, the Twenty-sixth Day of March, in the Year of our 

 Lord One thousand eight hundred and two. 



WILMOT. 



