390 STATUTES OF THE 



CHAPTER IX. 



OF THE ELECTION OF FELLOWS AND HONORARY MEMBERS. 



1. Elections shall be made by ballot, and only at stated 

 meetings. 



2. Candidates for election as Resident Fellows must be pro- 

 posed by two or more Resident Fellows in a recommendation 

 signed by them specifying the section to which the nomina- 

 tion is made, which recommendation shall be transmitted to 

 the Corresponding Secretary, and by him referred to the 

 Council for nomination. No person recommended shall be 

 reported by the Council as a candidate for election, unless he 

 shall have received a written approval, signed at a meet- 

 ing of the Council by at least eight of its members. All 

 nominations thus approved shall be read to the Academy 

 at a stated meeting, and shall then stand on the nomination 

 list during the interval between two stated meetings, and 

 until the balloting. No person shall be elected a Resident 

 Fellow, unless he shall have been resident in this Com- 

 monwealth one year next preceding his election ; and any 

 Resident Fellow, who shall remove his domicile from the 

 Commonwealth, shall be deemed to have abandoned his Fel- 

 lowship. 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 Coun- 

 cil, 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. 



3. The nomination of Associate Fellows shall take place in 

 the manner prescribed in reference to Resident Fellows ; and 

 after such nomination shall have been publicly read at a 

 stated meeting previous to that when the balloting takes 



