U STATUTES OF THE 



Academy.* They shall each pay to the Treasurer the sum of five dollars on admission, and an 

 annual assessment of two dollars, with such additional sum, not exceeding three dollars, as the 

 Academy shall, by a standing vote, from time to time determine. 



3. Fellows residing out of the State of Massachusetts shall be known and distinguished as 

 Associate Fellows. They shall not be liable to the payment of any fees or annual dues, but, 

 on removing within the State, shall be admitted to the privileges, and be subject to the obliga- 

 tions, of Resident Fellows. The number of Associate Fellows shall not exceed one hundred, of 

 whom there shall not be more than forty in either of the three classes of the Academy. 



4. The number of Foreign Honorary Members shall not exceed seventy-five ; and they shall 

 be chosen from among persons most eminent in foreign countries for their discoveries and attain- 

 ments in either of the three departments of knowledge above enumerated. And there shall not 

 be more than thirty Foreign Members in either of these departments. 



CHAPTER H. 

 Of Officers. 



1. There shall be a President, a Vice-President, a Corresponding Secretary, a Recording Sec- 

 retary, a Treasurer, and a Librarian, which officers shall be annually elected, by written votes, 

 at the Annual Meeting, on the day next preceding the last Wednesday in May. 



2. At the same time and in the same manner, nine Councillors shall be elected, three from 

 each class of the Academy, who, with the President, Vice-President, and the two Secretaries, 

 shall constitute a Council for Nomination. It shall also be the duty of this Council to exercise 

 a discreet supervision over all nominations and elections, and to exert their influence to obtain 

 and preserve a due proportion in the number of Fellows and Members in each of the sections. 



3. If any office shall become vacant during the year, the vacancy shall be filled by a new 

 election, at the next stated meeting. 



CHAPTER III. 



Of the President. 

 1. It shall be the duty of the President, and, in his absence, of the Vice-President or next 



* The number of Resident Fellows is limited by the Charter to 200. 



