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Proposals for nomination in any section must be made by at least three members of the section, 
with reasons stated in writing, and these reasons shall be sent with the nomination to the Council. 
7.—Duties of Members. 
Members shall sign the regulations of the Society, shall be presented by the President to the 
Society at a general meeting of the same, shall attend its stated meetings or send reasons of absence 
to the Honorary Secretary, and shall pay an annual subscription of $ , or the sum of $ 
in one payment in conrmutation of the same for life membership. These payments shall entitle 
members to receive the transactions of the Society. 
Any member failing to pay his subscription for two years shall, after due notice sent by the 
secretary, be dropped from the list of members at the next annual meeting. 
8.—Corresponding Members. 
The Society may elect by ballot, on proposal by three members or on recommendation of the 
Council, persons not resident in Canada as corresponding members. Such persons must be eminent 
in Literature or Science, and evidence to that effect must be presented to the Society at the time of 
their proposal or recommendation. The number of corresponding members shall be limited to 
sixteen, of whom four shall represent each section of the Society. 
9.— Meetings. 
The Society shall hold an annual meeting in such city of the Dominion as it may determine 
from time to time. It may at any annual meeting appoint other meetings to be held in the course 
of the year, The time of holding the annual meeting shall be between the 15th and 31st of May, 
on à day or days to be determined at the next previous meeting, or failing this by the Council, 
The offices of the Society shall be in the city of Ottawa, and its meetings shall be held in that city 
unless otherwise determined, 
10.— Papers. 
The title of any Paper, Memoir or other production, by a member, intended to be read ata 
meeting of the Society, shall be submitted, together with an abstract of its contents, to the Council, 
through the Secretary, previous to the meeting at which it is to be read. On its approval, each such 
communication shall be assigned to the section to which it belongs, and having been therein read and 
discussed, shall be submitted to the committee of the section, and on report of said committee, may, 
by vote of the section, be recommended to the Council for publication, either entire or in abstract 
in the Transactions of the Society. Communications by persons not members of the Society may be 
submitted by members on the same conditions with their own productions, 
11,— Associated Societies. 
Every Scientific or Literary Society in the Dominion which may be selected by vote of the 
Society shall be invited by circular of the Honorary Secretary to elect annually one of its members as 
a delegate to the meetings of the Society, such delegate to have, during his term of office, the privi- 
lege of taking part in all general or sectional meetings for reading and discussion of papers, and to be 
empowered to communicate a short statement of original work done and papers published during the 
year by his society, and to report on any matters in which the Royal Society may usefully aid in 
publication or otherwise. 
Pro. 1883. 2. 
