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leged classes referred to in Statute IV. of this Chapter, shall take 

 place on the first Thursday of June ; unless the Council shall alter 

 the day of Election to any other day in the month of June, in which 

 case due notice of such alteration shall be given to every Ordinary 

 Fellow. 



X. On the day of Election two Scrutators shall be nominated by 

 the President, with the approbation of the Society, to assist the 

 Secretaries in examining the lists ; and each Fellow present and 

 voting, shall deliver to one of the Secretaries or Scrutators one of the 

 printed lists mentioned in Statute VIII. of this Chapter, having 

 erased the name of any Candidate or Candidates for whom he does 

 not vote, and, if he shall have thought fit, having substituted or 

 added the name of any other Candidate or Candidates contained in 

 the printed list sent in pursuance of Statute VI. of this Chapter. 



XI. One of the Secretaries shall take down the names of the 

 Fellows who vote, and the Scrutators, after examining the lists with 

 the Secretaries, shall report to the President the names of the Candi- 

 dates who shall have been duly elected in compliance with the 

 Charters, and the President shall announce those names from the 

 Chair. 



XII. Any Candidate announced at the first Ordinary Meeting of 

 the Society in March, as aforesaid, who shall not have been elected, 

 shall, if his proposers, or any one of them, so request in writing, con- 

 tinue a Candidate ; his name shall be placed in alphabetical order 

 with those of the new Candidates to be announced in March following, 

 and his certificate shall be suspended along with those of the new 

 Candidates. Any additional qualifications of such a Candidate may 

 be set forth in a supplementary certificate to be signed by not fewer 

 than six Fellows. 



XIII. Every person who is elected a Fellow shall appear for his 

 admission on or before the fourth Ordinary Meeting of the Society 

 after the day of his election, or within such further time as shall, for 

 some sufficient cause, be granted by the Council; otherwise his 

 election shall be void. 



XIV. The admission of any Fellow into the Society shall be at 

 some Ordinary Meeting, in manner and form following, he having 

 first made the payments required by the Statutes. Immediately after 

 the reading of the Minutes has been concluded, he shall subscribe the 

 Obligation in the Charter-book, and be introduced to the President, 

 who, taking him by the hand, shall say these words : I do, by the 

 authority and in the name of the Royal Society of London, for improving 

 natural knowledge, admit you a Fellow thereof. 



XV. The Election, the payments made previous to admission, and 

 the admission of every person into the Society, with the time thereof, 

 shall be recorded in the Journal-book. 



