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Sec. 5. Corresponding Members shall 

 be landscape architects, abroad, of dis- 

 tinction, whom it is desired to honor. 



Sec. 6. Honorary Members shall be 

 distinguished persons whom it is deemed 

 desirable and appropriate for the Ameri- 

 can Society of Landscape Architects to 

 honor. 



Sec. T. The name of a candidate for 

 admission as Fellow, as Associate, or as 

 Corresponding or Honorary Member, 

 shall be proposed over the signatures of 

 tw-o Fellows of the Society, and the name 

 of a candidate for admission as Member 

 shall be proposed over the signatures of 

 two Fellows of the Society or of one 

 Fellow and one Member of the Society. 

 In any case the proposal shall be filled out 

 on a blank form, which shall supply pre- 

 liminary information furnished by the 

 proposers about the candidate. 



Sec. 8. The name of any candidate 

 proposed for admission to any one of the 

 five forms of membership shall be sub- 

 mitted to a sub-committee to be known 

 as the Examining Board, consisting of 

 three members of the Society, of whom 

 at least two shall be members of the 

 Board of Trustees, all three members to 

 be elected annually by the Board of 

 Trustees, and not more than two of them 

 to have their place of business in the 

 same state. 



."^ec. 9. When a proposal for any grade 

 of membership, duly made out, shall 

 have been received by the E.xamining 

 Board, they shall mail to all members of 

 the Society a notice thereof, giving a brief 

 statement as to the kind and extent of 

 education, training, and present work of 

 the candidate, and shall request members 

 to submit within thirty days confidential 

 communications upon the personal and 



professional qualifications and standing 

 of the candidate, and opinions favorable 

 or unfavorable to the candidate's election. 

 Every such communication shall be 

 signed and objections shall be accomp- 

 anied by the reasons therefor. 



If upon canvassing the replies the Ex- 

 amining Board judge the general profes- 

 sional or personal standing of the candi- 

 date not to be in accordance with the 

 standards of the Society for the grade of 

 membership proposed, the proposal shall 

 be rejected and the proposers so notified. 



Unless rejected on consideration of the 

 replies from members, the candidate shall 

 be requested to submit further evidence 

 of professional abilities such as plans, 

 drawings, before and after photographs, 

 reports, etc., setting forth the candidate's 

 own work in landscape architecture, and 

 such material when submitted shall re- 

 main the property of the Society. On 

 examination of such material and of all 

 other evidence before it, the Examining 

 Board shall vote to recommend, or not 

 to recommend, to the Trustees the elec- 

 tion of the candidate. 



Sec. 10. The Examining Board shall 

 not take final action upon a candidate 

 within less than thirty days after asking 

 the opinion of members in regard to lhe_ 

 candidate. i 



Sec. II. In recommending to the 

 Board of Trustees a candidate as Mem- 

 ber, or Fellow, or Associate, or Hon- 

 orary, or Corresponding Member, the Ex- 

 amining Board shall report in w-riting, the 

 grounds upon which the recommendation 

 is based. 



Sec. 18. The names of candidates, 

 having been reported by the Examining 

 Board, shall then be voted upon by the 



