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CHAPTER IV. 



Of the Foreign Members. 



Sect. I. No Person shall be elected a Foreign Member of the 

 Society until the Number remaining of those elected on or before 

 the Twenty-fourth Day of May 1802 shall be less than Fifty, to 

 which Number the Foreign Members shall, from thenceforward, 

 be limited; and no Person shall be proposed as a Foreign Member 

 until a Vacancy shall have been actually declared to the Society. 



II. Each Certificate proposing a Candidate for Election as a 

 Foreign Member shall be signed by Six or more Fellows, and 

 shall specify his Christian Name, Surname, Titles, Works, Qua- 

 lity or Profession, and his Place of Residence. Such Certificate 

 shall be presented at one of the General Meetings of the Society, 

 on or before the Seventh Day of February in every Year; and, 

 after being read, shall be fixed up in the public Meeting-Room, 

 where it shall continue until the Election, which shall take place 

 at the Meeting immediately preceding the Anniversary. Each 

 Certificate is also to be read at every Meeting of the Society 

 which may intervene between the Time of its being presented and 

 the Day of Election. 



III. At the General Meeting immediately preceding the Anni- 

 versary, the President, or Vice-President in the Chair, shall 

 declare the Number of Vacancies, and the Number of Candidates 

 proposed as aforesaid, who shall then be severally balloted for, 

 in alphabetical Order; and those Candidates who shall have the 

 greatest Number of Votes shall be declared as elected: Provided, 

 however, that no Person shall be considered as duly elected, 

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



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