5 
the Council shall decline to bring this recommendation before the Society, it shall 
he competent for the proposers to bring the same before a General Meeting. The 
election shall be by ballot, after the proposal has been communicated viva voce 
from the Chair at one meeting, and printed in the circular for the meeting at 
which the ballot is to take place. 
XIII. 
The election of Ordinary Fellows shall take place at the Ordinary Meetings of 
the Society. The election shall be by ballot, and shall be determined by a majo- 
rity of at least two-thirds of the votes, provided Twenty-four Fellows be present 
and vote. 
XIV. 
The Ordinary Meetings shall be held on the first and third Mondays of every 
month, from November to June inclusive. Regular minutes shall be kept of the 
proceedings, and the Secretaries shall do the duty alternately, or according to 
such agreement as they may find it convenient to make. 
XV. 
The Society shall from time to time publish its Transactions and Proceedings. 
For this purpose the Council shall select and arrange the papers which they shall 
deem it expedient to publish in the Transactions of the Society, and shall super- 
intend the printing of the same. 
XVI. 
The Transactions shall be published in Parts or Fasciculi at the close of each 
session, and the expense shall be defrayed by the Society. 
There shall be elected annually, for conducting the publications and regulating 
the private business of the Society, a Council, consisting of a President ; Six Vice- 
Presidents, two at least of whom shall be resident; Twelve Counsellors, a General 
Secretary, Two Secretaries to the Ordinary Meetings, a Treasurer, and a Curator, 
and an Assistant-Curator of the Museum and Library. 
XVII. 
Four Counsellors shall go out annually, to be taken according to the order in 
which they stand on the list of the Council. 
XVIII. 
An Extraordinary Meeting for the Election of Office-Bearers shall be held on 
the fourth Monday of November annually. 
