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" as the Case may be) thereof." And the Ejection of every such 

 Person shall be then recorded in the Minute-Book of the Society ; 

 and his Name, as ejected, shall be read at the next Anniversary 

 Meeting. 



III. All Persons ejected from the Society shall be thereby ren- 

 dered incapable of belonging to it in future. 



CHAPTEE VIII. 

 Of the Election of the Council and Officers. 



Sect. I. Every Fellow of the Society residing within the United 

 Kingdom, and whose Residence may be known to the Secretary 

 or Librarian, shall be summoned to the Anniversary Meetings for 

 electing the Council and Officers for the Tear ensuing, by a Letter 

 signed by one of the Secretaries ; and such Summons shall be sent 

 by Post, to the House or Lodging of every such Fellow, a Week 

 at the least before the Election, which by the Charter is directed to 

 take place annually on the Twenty-fourth Day of May, being the 

 Birth-Day of the celebrated Linnaeus ; unless that Day shall happen 

 to be on a Sunday, and then on the Day following. And eacli 

 Anniversary Meeting shall also be advertised in Two or more of the 

 public JSTewspapers, at least One Week before the same take place. 



II. The Council for the Time being shall, before the Day of 

 Election, cause to be prepared a sufficient Number of printed 

 Balloting-Lists, according to the annexed Forms ; One of which 

 (No. I.) is to contain the Names of such Persons as they shall 

 recommend to be removed from and elected into the Council, and 

 the other (No. II.) to contain the Names of such Persons as they 

 shall recommend to fill the Offices of President, Treasurer, and 

 Secretaries, for the ensuing Tear. 



III. On the Day of Election, the President, or in his absence 

 a Vice-President, shall take the Chair precisely at Three o' Clock 

 P.M., and shall immediately open the Business of the Day ; Two 

 Balloting- Glasses being placed before the Chair. One of those 

 Glasses shall remain open for receiving Lists for the Council until 

 Four o'clock, and the other Glass shall remain open for receiving 

 Lists for the Officers until Half-past Four o' Clock p.m., at which 

 respective Times the Ballots shall be closed. 



IV. Balloting-Lists shall be delivered to every Fellow who shall 

 apply for them ; and if any Fellow should not approve of the 

 Persons therein named, but be desirous of giving his Vote for 

 some other Person or Persons, he will strike his Pen across the 



