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being read, shall be fixed up in the public Meeting-Eoom, where 

 it shall continue until the Election, which shall take place at the 

 Meeting immediately preceding the Anniversary. Each Certificate 

 is also to be read at every Meeting of the' Society which may in- 

 tervene between the Time of its being presented and the Day of 

 Election. 



III. At the General Meeting immediately preceding the Anni- 

 versary, the President, or Vice-President in the Chair, shall declare 

 the Number of Vacancies, and the Number of Candidates proposed 

 as aforesaid, who shall then be severally balloted for, in alphabetical 

 Order ; and those Candidates who shall have the greatest Number 

 of Votes shall be declared as elected : Provided, however, that no 

 Person shall be considered as duly elected, unless he have in his 

 Favour Two-thirds of the Number voting. 



IV. In case of an Equality of Votes in Eavour of Two or more 

 Candidates, whose Number shall exceed the Number of Vacancies 

 to be filled up from them, the excess of such Number shaU be ex- 

 cluded by Lots, to be drawn by the President, or Vice-President 

 in the Chair ; and the Person or Persons whose Names shall remain 

 undrawn shall be declared to be duly elected. 



V. There shall be transmitted to each Foreign Member, as soon 

 as maybe after his Election, a Diploma in the Latin Language,under 

 the Common Seal of the Society, signed by the President or one of 

 the Vice-Presidents, and countersigned by one of the Secretaries. 



VI. No British Subject, nor any Person usually residing in any 

 of the British Dominions, unless he be an Ambassador from a 

 Foreign Court, shall be elected a Foreign Member of the Society. 



CHAPTEE V. 



OftJie Associates. 



Sect. I. Not more than one Person in each Year shall be elected 

 an Associate, until the total Number shall not exceed Twenty- 

 five, to which Numberthe Associates shall thenceforward be limited. 



IT. The Associates shall include only such Persons as usually 

 reside in the British Dominions. 



III. Every Candidate for Election as an Associate shall be pro- 

 posed, recommended, and balloted for in like Manner, in aU 

 Eespects, as is directed in the Second, Third, and Fourth Sections 

 of Chapter I. respecting the Election of Fellows. 



IV. The Secretary shall, immediately after the Election of any 



