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CONDITIONS OF MEMBERSHIP (excerpted from the Laws). 
III. Any person interested in Forestry, and desirous of pro- 
moting the objects of the Society, is eligible for election as an 
Ordinary Member in one of the following Classes :— 
I. Proprietors the valuation of whose land exceeds £500 per 
annum, and others, subscribing annually : . One Guinea. 
2. Proprietors the valuation of whose land does not exceed 
4500 per annum, Factors, Nurserymen, and others, 
subscribing annually . 7 . Half-a-Guinea. 
3. Foresters, Gardeners, Land-Stewards, i einen sub- 
scribing annually - a . Six Shillings. 
4. Assistant-Foresters, Assistant- Gardeneta and iether! sub- 
scribing annually = “ : . Four Shillings. 
IV. Subscriptions are due on the Ist of eae in each year, 
and shall be payable in advance. A new Member’s subscription 
is due on the day of election. 
V. Members in arrear shall not receive the Zvansactions. Any 
Member whose Annual Subscription remains unpaid for three years 
shall cease to be a Member of the Society, and no such Member 
shall be eligible for re-election till all his arrears are paid up. 
VI. Any eligible person may become a Zzfe Member of the 
soe on payment, according to class, of the following sums :— 
. Large Proprietors of land, and others, : . £10 Io B 
2. Small Proprietors, Factors, Nurserymen, and athens: ; 5-5, 2 
3. Foresters, Gardeners, Land-Stewards, and others, . 2 3 se 
VII. Any Ordinary Member of Classes 1, 2, and 3, who has paid 
five Annual Subscriptions, may become a Zzfe Member on payment 
of Two-thirds of the sum payable by zezw Life Members. 
XII. A Candidate for admission into the Society must be pro- 
posed by at least one Member, and shall, 0” payment of the Annual 
Subscription or Life Composition, be immediately admitted a Member 
of the Society, subject to the confirmation of the first General 
Meeting thereafter. Any Member of the Society proposing a new 
Member shad/ be held to be responsible for his first year’s Subscription. 
Resolution adopted at the Annual Meeting held on 26th January 
1898, for the temporary alteration of Law XII.:— 
‘* Every nomination for Membership of the Society must be made in writing, 
and must be signed by the proposer and at least one seconder; 
such nominations shall be submitted by the Secretary to the next 
meeting of Council, and shall thereafter lie on the table until the 
immediately succeeding meeting of Council, when they shall again 
be read over and accepted or declined, as the Council deem best in 
the interests of the Society. The Council shall at such subsequent 
meeting pass the accepted nominations to the effect that the Treasurer 
may accept the Annual Subscription or Life Composition, on payment 
of which the Candidate shall be admitted a Member of the Society, 
subject to the confirmation of the first General Meeting thereafter.” 
