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printed Name or Names of the Person or Persons of whom he may 

 disapproA'e, and will write over against such printed Name or 

 Names on the blank Side left and prepared for that Purpose, the 

 Name or Names of the other Person or Persons for whom he may 

 be desirous to give his Yote. 



Y. Each Fellow voting shall deliver his Balloting- List or Lists, 

 folded up, to the President or Vice-President in the Chair, who 

 shall, in his presence, immediately put such List or Lists into the 

 respective Grlasses ; and the name of each Pellow who shall so 

 deliver in his List or Lists shall be marked on a printed List of the 

 Fellows, by one of the Secretaries, or by the Person officiating in 

 his stead. 



YI. Yi/Tien the Ballot for the Council shall have been closed, the 

 President or Yice- President in the Chair shall appoint Three 

 Scrutineers, not Members of the Council, to examine the Lists, 

 and report the Eesult of the Ballot : One of those Scrutineers 

 shall open and read aloud each List deposited in the Balloting- 

 Grlass, and file it, while the other Two Scrutineers shall mark the 

 Names ; and when all the Lists shall be drawn and read, the 

 Scrutineers shall cast up the Number of the Yotes for each Person, 

 whether to be removed from or elected into the Council, and shall 

 report the same to the President or Yice-President in the Chair, 

 who shall then declare the Five Persons for whose Eemoval from 

 the Council there shall be the Majority of Yotes, to be removed 

 accordingly ; and the Five Persons for whose Election there shall 

 be a Majority of Yotes, to be elected Members of the Council for 

 the ensuing year accordingly. 



YII. "When the Members of the Council for the ensuing Tear 

 shall have been declared, and not before, the President or Yice- 

 President in the Chair shall appoint the same or Three other 

 Scrutineers, not being Members of the Council, to examine the 

 Lists and report the Eesult of the Ballot for President, Treasurer, 

 and Secretaries ; and such Examination and Eeport being made 

 agreeably to the Directions contained in the preceding Section 

 respecting the Council, the President or Yice-President in the 

 Chair shall declare those who have the Majority of Yotes to be 

 the Pei'sons elected to the respective Offices. 



YIII. If any List should contain more than the proper Number 

 of Names, or if any List for Officers should include the Name of 

 any Person not being a Member of the Council, such List shall be 

 set aside, and not taken any account of, by the Scrutineers in 

 casting up the Number of Yotes. 



