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3. Eleven Fellows shall be present to constitute a meeting of tlie Academy, imless for the 

 purposes of receiving communications, and adjourning, in which cases, seven shall be a quorum. 

 And at any meeting of tlie Council the presiding member, with four others of the Council, are 

 required to be present, in order to transact any business proper to the Council 



4. At all meetings of the Academy or Council tlie President, and Vice-President, or in their 

 absence, the presiding menaber shall have a right to vote in common with the other members of 

 either body respectively. 



5. Xo person shall be introduced to any meeting of the Academy but by vote of the Academy, 

 except American and foreign Ambassadors, members of Congress, members of the Supreme Legis- 

 lative and Executive of the State of MassacJmsetts for the time being, and members of similar 

 institutions with this Academy, who may be introduced by any member of the Academy. 



6. All meetings of the Academy shall be advertised in two at least of the public news-papers, 

 fourteen days previous to such meeting, by one of the Secretaries under direction of the President, 

 or in his absence of the Vice-President, or presiding member of the Council. 



7. All meetings of the Council shall be notified to the several members by billets from the 

 President, or one of the Secretaries under direction of the President, or in his absence, of the 

 Vice-President or presiding member of the Council, seven days, at least, before the time stated or 

 proposed for a meeting. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Of Fellows. 



1. No person shall be elected a Fellow of the Academy, unless proposed and recommended by 

 one or more of the members, nor nominated to the Academy until he has first been proposed to the 

 Council, and they have consented to such nomination ; and the name, place of abode, and addition 

 of the person recommended, shall be delivered in, signed by the proposers, and read by one of the 

 Secretaries. A fair copy of such paper, with the date when delivered, shall be hung up in the 

 room, where the Academy shall from time to time meet, on which the Candidates may be balloted 

 for at the next, or some succeeding meeting. And if three-fourths of the Fellows then present shall 

 ballot in his favor, he shall be a member. 



2. Each Fellow residing in the State of Massachusetts, shall be subject to an annual payment of 

 Spanish milled dollars in specie, or an equivalent in bills of the current exchange. Fellows 



without the State shall be subject to no other annual payment, than they voluntarily consent to. 



