400 STATUTES OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



CHAPTER X. 



Of the Election of Fellows and Honorary Membees. 



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 nomination 

 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 meeting of the Council by at least 

 seven 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 meet- 

 ings, and until the balloting. No person shall be elected a Resident 

 Fellow, unless he shall have been resident in this Commonwealth 

 one year next preceding his election. 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 Council, to dis- 

 pense (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 place, it shall be 

 referred to the Council for Nomination ; and a written approval, 

 authorized and signed at a meeting of said Council by at least 

 seven of its members, shall be requisite to entitle the candidate 

 to be balloted for. The Council may m like manner originate 

 nominations of Associate Fellows, which must be read at a stated 

 meeting previous to the election, and be exposed on the nomina- 

 tion list during the interval. 



