Statutes of the Royal Society. 487 



any of us shall signify to the President under his hand, that he desireth 

 to withdraw from the Society, he shall be free from this Obligation for 

 the future. 



And if any person elected shall refuse to subscribe the said 

 Obligation, the election of that person shall be void. 



CHAPTER III. 



Of the Payments to be made by the Fellows to the Society. 



I. EVERY person elected a Fellow of the Society shall, before he is 

 admitted, pay the sum of ten pounds for admission money, the sum of 

 four pounds for the year of his Election, and the same sum annually in 

 advance so long as he shall continue a Fellow of the Society. And if 

 any such person shall refuse or fail to pay the said sums, he shall not 

 be admitted, and his Election shall be void : except the said sums be 

 remitted in whole, or in part, by special order of the Council. Pro- 

 vided always that, except in the case of Fellows elected under 

 Statute IV. of Chapter I., the admission fee of each Fellow shall be 

 paid out of the Fee Reduction Fund, and shall not be demanded of 

 the Fellow ; and that, except in the case of Fellows elected under 

 Statute IV. of Chapter I., and Fellows elected before January, 1879, 

 one pound of the annual contribution shall be paid out of the Fee 

 Reduction Fund. 



II. All who have or may become Fellows of the Society may at 

 any time compound for their annual payments, by paying at once the 

 sum of sixty pounds. 



III. All Annual Contributions shall be considered to be due on the 

 25th day of March in each year. Every Fellow of the Society liable 

 to an Annual Payment shall (previously to the 25th day of March in 

 every year) bring or send the same to the Treasurer or the Assistant 

 Secretary. And if any such Fellow, after notice sent by post to his 

 usual address, in May, and again in September, shall fail to pay the 

 same before the first day of October in each year, his name shall be 

 suspended in the public Meeting-room of the Society as being in 

 arrear, and shall continue so suspended until the sum due be paid. 

 And if any such Fellow shall fail to pay his subscription on or before 

 the first day of November in each year, no satisfactory reason having 

 been assigned to the President and Council for such non-payment, he 

 shall cease to be a Fellow of the Society. Provided, nevertheless, 

 that on a solicitation for readmission being addressed to the President 

 and Council by an individual so circumstanced, within the space of one 

 year following St. Andrew's Day, the case of the individual so solicit- 

 ing shall be stated by the President from the Chair, at one of the 

 Ordinary Meetings of the Society, and the question of his readmission 

 be put to the vote at the next Ordinary Meeting of the Society. 



