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IV. Any one of Her Majesty's subjects who is a Prince of the 

 Blood Royal may, nevertheless, be proposed at one of the Ordinary 

 Meetings of the Society by any Fellow, and may be put to the vote 

 for Election on the same day, provided public notice of such proposi- 

 tion shall have been given by the proposer at the preceding Meeting 

 of the Society. 



Any Member of Her Majesty's Privy Council may be proposed at 

 any Ordinary Meeting by means of a certificate prepared in accordance 

 with Statute III. of this Chapter, no distinction, however, being made 

 between personal and general knowledge, and the fact of the 

 Candidate being a Member of the Privy Council being alone stated as 

 the qualification. Such certificate, on being allowed by the Society, 

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

 Society until the day on which a ballot is taken upon it. The date 

 proposed for the ballot, which shall not be earlier than the third 

 Ordinary Meeting after that at which the certificate is read, shall be 

 announced at the head of the certificate. 



V. At the first Ordinary Meeting of the Society in March, the 

 names of all Candidates proposed subsequently to the first Meeting in 

 March of the preceding year, including those whose certificates 

 have been resuspended as hereinafter provided, shall be announced by 

 the Secretary from a list arranged in alphabetical order, without 

 reference to the dates of the certificates of the Candidates ; and these 

 certificates shall remain suspended until the day of Election. 



VI. In the first week in April a list shall be printed, containing 

 the names of all the Candidates so announced at the first Meeting in 

 March, arranged in alphabetical order, without reference to the dates 

 of the certificates, together with the names of the Fellows by whom 

 each Candidate is proposed and recommended ; and a copy of such 

 list shall immediately thereafter be sent to every Ordinary Fellow. 



VII. The Council shall select by ballot from such printed list o 

 Candidates a number not exceeding fifteen, to be recommended 

 to the Society for Election ; but no such selection by the Council 

 shall be valid unless eleven Members at least be present and vote, a 

 majority deciding, or in the event of equality the President having a 

 second or casting vote. 



VIII. At the first Ordinary Meeting of the Society in May, the 

 President shall read from the Chair the names of the Candidates 

 whom the Council have selected as most eligible, arranged in alpha- 

 betical order ; and after such Meeting, a circular letter shall be forth- 

 with sent to every Fellow, naming the day and hour of Election, and 

 inclosing a printed list of the selected Candidates, with space for such 

 alterations as any Fellow may determine to make in pursuance of 

 Statute X. of this Chapter. 



IX. The election of Ordinary Fellows not included in the privi- 





