6 By-Laws and Rules. 
bers shall be made in writing; each nomination for Fellow or 
Member shall be signed by three Fellows or Members; shall 
state the candidate’s name in full, and his residence; and 
shall be delivered to the Secretary at least three months 
prior to the Stated Meeting at which it is to be voted on. 
The Secretary, in sending Fellows the names of nominees 
to the Class of Fellows, shall inclose a printed Australian ballot 
bearing the names of the nominees, an inner unmarked envel- 
ope, and a return envelope addressed to himself. From the 
names in nomination each Fellow shall indicate his choice for 
not to exceed five nominees, and shall return the same to the 
Secretary in the envelopes provided for the purpose (his name 
to be inscribed on the outer envelope, the inner envelope to be 
sealed but not marked). At the next Stated Meeting of the 
Union the ballots so received by the Secretary shall be deliv- 
ered by him, in the original sealed envelopes, to the tellers 
appointed by the President; said tellers shall open and count 
the ballots, and only such names as have received fifteen or 
more votes on the preliminary ballot shall be balloted for by 
the Fellows present at said Meeting. 
Section 5. Elections to the classes of Fellows shall be held 
in the following manner: The number to be elected shall be 
first decided by a majority vote of the Fellows present at the 
Stated Meeting at which the election is to be held, but not 
more than five Fellows shall be elected in any one year. 
At each ballot each Fellow present may vate for nominees 
not exceeding the full number of vacancies to be filled, and 
the person receiving the highest number of votes shall be 
declared elected, provided that he receive the votes of at least 
three fourths of the Fellows present, and so on until all the 
vacancies are filled. Any candidate who, in each of ten suc- 
cessive ballots, fails to receive the votes of half of the Fellows 
present shall cease to be a candidate during the remainder of 
the Stated Meeting. 
The election may be suspended at any time by a majority 
vote of the Fellows present. 
During election a discussion of the merits of nominees will 
be in order. 
