CXXVI THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
reported to the general meeting of the Society, otherwise no such new 
member or members shall be elected for that year. This last rule shall 
cease to operate as soon as the total number in any section shall have 
reached the limit set by this By-Law. 
7. Corresponding Members. 
The Society may elect by ballot persons not resident in Canada 
as Corresponding Members, on the recommendation of the Council, 
or on proposal by three 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. Not 
more than four of these shall be elected for any one section; and the 
name or names proposed, the names of the proposers, and the reasons 
in writing, shall be announced to the Society by the honorary secretary, 
at least one day before the balloting for any such corresponding 
member. 
8. Duties of Members. 
Members shall sign the regulations of the Society, shall be pre- 
sented by the president to the Society at a general meeting, shall 
attend its stated meetings or send reasons of absence to the honorary 
secretary, and shall pay an annual subscription of $5.00 or the sum of 
$50.00 in one payment in commutation of the same for life membership. 
Any member may withdraw from the Society, and the Society may, 
by resolution in general session on the recommendation of the council, 
grant to such member the privilege of retaining his title, and his name 
shall thence forward be entered on the lists as a retired member re- 
taining title. 
Any member who has failed to attend three successive annual 
meetings without presenting a paper, shall be considered to have 
resigned as a member of the Society, and his name shall be removed 
from the list of members by the honorary secretary, provided that the 
Society may, upon the recommendation of the section to which such 
member belongs, suspend action from year to year for two years under 
this rule. 
The annual subscription shall be payable at the close of the 
Society’s year before the 30th day of April in every year, and if any 
member after notice sent by post to his usual address by the honorary 
treasurer in April and again in September, shall fail to pay the same 
before the Ist day of January following, he shall cease to be a member 
