xvi Bye-Lares of the Linnean Society. 



II. Whensoever there shall be Cause for the Ejection of any 

 Member from the Society, the President shall, at some Meeting 

 thereof, propose the Ejection of such Member ; and at the next 

 General Meeting the Question shall be put to the Ballot, and if 

 Two-thirds of the Members present vote for it, the President shall 

 cancel the Name of such Person in the Register, and at the same 

 Time pronounce him ejected in these Words, viz. " By the 

 " Authority and in the Name of the Linnean Society of London, 

 " I declare A. B. to be now ejected and no longer a (Fellow, &c. 

 " as the Case may be) thereof." And the Ejection of every such 

 Person shall be then recorded in the Minute-Book of the Society ; 

 and his Name, as ejected, shall be read at the next Anniver- 

 sary Meeting. 



III. All Persons ejected from the Society shall be thereby 

 rendered incapable of belonging to it in future. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Of the Election of the Council and Officers. 



Sect. I. Every Fellow of the Society residing in, or within the 

 Distance of Sixty Miles from, London, and whose Residence may 

 be known to the Secretary or Clerk, shall be summoned to the 

 Anniversary Meetings for electing the Council and Officers for 

 the Year ensuing, by a Letter signed by the Secretary ; and such 

 Summons shall be sent by Post, to the House or Lodging of every 

 such Fellow, a Week at the least before the Election, which by the 

 Charter is directed to take place annually on the Twenty-fourth 

 Day of May, being the Birth-Day of the celebrated Linnaeus; 

 unless that Day shall happen to be on a Sunday, and then on the 



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