Statutes of the Royal Society. 



483 



518. All Powers, &c., which could not be exercised heretofore but 

 by the President and Council, or seven or more of them, may 

 for the future be exercised by the President and Council, or 

 any five or more of them. 



518.J For *^ e future, the President may appoint one Printer or more, 

 and one Engraver or more, and authorise him or them to 

 print such Things (touching or concerning the Royal 

 Society) as shall be given to him or them in Charge, by the 

 President and Council, or any five or more of them (of 

 whom the President or his Deputy to be one), or by the 

 major Part of such five or more. They must be first sworn 

 before the President and Council, or any five or more of them. 



5L9. General confirmatory Clauses. 



520. The President and Vice-Presidents are enjoined to take the 

 Oath of Obedience and the Oath of Supremacy, before the 

 Council, or seven or more of them, previously to their acting. 



STATUTES OF THE EOYAL SOCIETY, 1891. 



CHAPTER I. 



Of the Election and Admission of Fellows. 



I. No person shall be proposed, elected, or admitted a Fellow of 

 the Society on the day of the Anniversary Meeting for electing the 

 Council and Officers. 



II. Every Fellow, previously to his proposing a person as a 

 Candidate for Election, shall inform him of the Obligation to be 

 subscribed, of the sum to be paid for admission money, and of the 

 payments to be made to the Society, before he can be admitted 



a Fellow. 



III. Every such Candidate shall be proposed and recommended by 

 a certificate in writing signed by six or more Fellows, of whom three 

 at least shall certify their recommendation from personal knowledge. 

 The certificate shall specify the name, rank, profession, qualifications, 

 and usual place of residence of ths Candidate ; and being delivered 

 to one of the Secretaries, or to the Assistant Secretary, shall be 

 registered, with the date of delivery, in a book to be kept for the 

 purpose, and read at the next ordinary meeting ; and, if so ordered, 

 shall be suspended in some convenient place in the Apartments of the 

 Society until the day of Election. 



