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meeting. Resident Fellows only may vote at the meetings of the 

 Academy. 



3. The number of Associate Fellows shall not exceed one liundred, 

 of whom there shall not be more than forty in either of the tliree classes 

 of the Academy. Associate Fellows shall be chosen from persons resid- 

 ing outside of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. They shall not be 

 liable to the payment of any fees or annual dues, but on removing witliin 

 the Commonwealth they may be transferred by the Council to resident 

 fellowship as vacancies there occur. 



4. The number of Foreign Honorary Members shall not exceed 

 seventy-five ; and they shall be chosen from among persons most eminent 

 in foreign countries for their discoveries and attainments in either of the 

 three departments of knowledge above enumerated. There shall not be 

 more than thirty Foreign Members in either of these departments. 



CHAPTER II. 

 Of Officers. 



1. There shall be a President, three Vice-Presidents, one for each 

 Class, a Corresponding Secretary, a Recording Secretary, a Treasurer, 

 and a Librarian, which officers shall be annually elected, by ballot, at 

 the Annual Meeting, on the second Wednesday in May. 



2. At the Annual Meeting of 1901, nine Councillors shall be elected 

 by ballot, one from each Class of the Academy to serve for one year, 

 one from each Class for two years, and one from each Class for three 

 years ; and at annual meetings thereafter three Councillors shall be 

 elected in the same manner, one from each Class, to serve for three 

 years ; but the same Fellow shall not be eligible for two successive terms. 

 The nine Councillors, with the President, the three Vice-Presidents, 

 the two Secretaries, the Treasurer, and the Librarian, shall constitute the 

 Council. Five members shall constitute a quorum. It shall be the 

 duty of this Council to exercise a discreet supervision over all nomina- 

 tions and elections. With the consent of the Fellow interested, they 

 shall have power to make transfers between the several Sections of the 

 same Class, reporting their action to the Academy. 



3. If any office sliall become vacant during the year, the vacancy 

 shall be filled by a new election, and at the next stated meeting, or at a 

 meeting called for this purpose. 



