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Societies, cease to desire to become Fellows, and by keep-' 

 inff charged against them sums which will never be paid, 

 a fallacious appearance would be given to the accounts, 

 which the Council are most anxious to avoid, lo reheve 

 the book from useless names and charges, application was 

 made to all those persons who, from the length of time that 

 had elapsed since their election, appeared unlike y to jom 

 the Society. In some instances, the application ^^^^'SJ^' 

 attended to intimated a desire that the elections should be 

 considered void, and the Council proposed accordingly to 

 annul them, but they found that they possessed no such 

 power. To invest them with it, should circumstances occur 

 to require its use, they framed an 



Alteration in the By-Laws, 



by which they are authorized to declare void the election 

 of any person who shall not have paid his Admission Fee 

 within six months. This alteration has been confirmed by 

 the Society in the manner required by the Charter, and will 

 in future be kept in view. 



Increase of the Annual Contribution. 

 Another alteration in the By-Laws, which has been simi- 

 larly confirmed by the Society, relates also to the subject 

 of Finance. In August last the attention of the Council 

 was called by a Resolution of the General Meeting to the 

 consideration of the propriety of increasing the Admission 

 Fee and Annual Contribution of every Fellow who should 

 be elected after such increase had been ordered. The sug- 

 gestion appeared to the Council to be deserving of adop- 

 tion as regarded the increase of the Annual Contribution, 

 and the necessary steps having been taken to render the 

 alteration binding, it came into operation at the commence- 

 xnent of the present year. The Annual Contribution o 

 every Fellow elected subsequently ^^ ^'''^f''' X 'hi 

 jeS, and the Composition in lieu thereof is £30. ine 



