Bye-Laws of the Linncan Society. ix. 



III. No Person shall be proposed as a Fellow, or be capable 

 of being elected as such, until he shall have fully attained the 

 Age of Twcnt y-ono Years. 



IV. Each Recommendation of a Candidate for Admission as a 

 Fellow, shall be hung up in the common Meeting-Room of the 

 Society, the Date of the Day on which it shall be presented being 

 previously written on it, and shall be read at Three successive 

 General Meetings, between the Meeting at which the same shall 

 be presented and the Meeting at which the Ballot for Election 

 shall take place. 



V. No Person shall be declared to he r>lerteH a Fellow, unless 

 he have in his Favour Two-thirds of the Number balloting. 



VI. Every Person chosen a Fellow shall have immediate Notice 

 of his Election given to him by the Secretary, and shall appear 

 personally for his Admission within the Space of Two Months from 

 the Day of his Election, or within such further Time as shall be 

 granted by the Society or Council, upon special Application 

 being made to them for that Purpose; and, in default of his so 

 appearing, his Election shall be void. 



VII. No Person elected shall be admitted a Fellow of the 

 Society, until he shall have paid his Admission-Fee, and given 

 the usual Bond for the Payment of Yearly Contributions, or paid 

 the Sum appointed in lieu of such Contributions. 



VIII. Every Person elected a Fellow of the Societ}' shall, 

 before his Admission, subscribe an Obligation in the following 

 Words, viz. " We who have hereunto subscribed do hereby 

 " promise, each for himself, that we will endeavour to promote 

 " the Good of The Linncan Society of London, and to pursue the 

 " Ends for which the same was instituted : That we will be present 

 " at the Meetings of the Society, as often as conveniently we 

 " can, especially at tlxe Anniversary Elections, and upon extraor- 



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