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made, but such allowance shall in no case exceed one-half of the c'lrrent 



whole composition. annual 



*• payments. 



14. Fellows may at auy time change the rate of their Annual j. ,j 

 Subscription or increase their composition from 20 guineas to 40 may change 

 guineas, on intimating their desire to the Secretary in writing, theirrateof 

 first paying up all arrears. payments, 



15. All arrears of subscriptions and payments which shall Arrears of 

 not liave been paid within six months after they become due, ^y^^^^^P" 

 shall be reported from time to time by the Treasurer to the 

 Council, and the names of all Fellows in arrear more than twelve 

 months, with the amount of each arrear, shall be hung up in the 



library and upon every day of meeting in the general meeting- 

 room of the Society; and the Treasurer shall take such measures 

 as may by the Council be deemed expedient and necessary for the 

 recovery thereof, 



16. No Fellow who is more than one year in arrear of his Fellows in 

 annual contributions shall be entitled to vote at any election ^^!t^,^ f?*^ 



r ^ rf ' . /• 1 • T entitled to 



or meetnig oi the bociety, or to exercise any of the rights or exercise 



privileges of a Fellow, privileges. 



Fuuih and Property of the Society. 



17. The funds and property, and all accretions of and additions Funds to be 

 to the same, shall be exclusively employed, under the direction of appUed^m^ 

 the Council, in promoting the objects and purposes for which the promoting 

 Society was incorporated; and no dividend, gift, division, or the objects 

 bonus in money or otherwise shall under any circumstances what- g^j^-^^y 

 ever be made unto or between any of its Fellows or Members. 

 But the provisions of this clause shall not be construed to pre- 

 vent Fellows, or Members, competing for and receiving prizes, 

 in money or otherwise, at any of the Exhibitions of the Society, 

 and shall not interfere with the privileges of the Fellows as to 

 seeds, plants, cuttings, grafts of plants, and publications of the 

 Society hereinafter provided for. 



Rights and Privileges of Fellows • 



18. All Fellows, whatever their rate of payment may be, shall Voting at 

 be entitled, provided their Subscription is not in arrear, to be pre- "aeetirgs. 

 sent and vote at all Special or General Meetings. 



