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be propounded by any single Person and to be put to the Vote for 

 Election on the same Day, there being- present a competent Number for 

 making Elections." 



Ann 1730 This, however, was in turn, very soon, viz., in 1730, 

 changed to the following form, all mention of Council 

 being omitted from the Statute : 



" X. Every person to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, shall 

 be propounded and recommended at a meeting of the Society by three 

 or more Members ; who shall then deliver to one of the Secretaries a 

 paper, signed by themselves with their own names, specifying the name, 

 addition, profession, occupation, and chief qualifications ; the inventions, 

 discoveries, works, writings, or other productions of the candidate for 

 Election ; as also notifying the usual place of his habitation. 



"A fair copy of which paper, with the date of the day when 

 delivered, shall be fixed up in the common meeting room of the 

 Society at ten several ordinary meetings, before the said candidate shall 

 be put to the ballot : Saving and excepting, that it shall be free for 

 every one of his Majesty's subjects, who is a Peer or the Son of a 

 Peer of Great Britain or Ireland, and for every one of his Majesty's 

 Privy council of either of the said Kingdoms, and for every foreign 

 Prince or Ambassador, to be propounded by any single person, and 

 to be put to the ballot for Election on the same day, there being present 

 a competent number for making Elections." 



It appears in this form in the Edition of 1752 as Sec. 10 of Cap. VI. 



The Admission of Fellows. 



Ann. 1727. In 1727, also on January 9th, the two following Statutes 

 were enacted : 



" II. Every Person who is a Foreigner and every one of his 

 Majesties Subjects whose habitation or usual place of residence is at 

 more than forty miles distance from London, shall be and be deemed 

 as a Fellow of the Society immediately after he shall be Elected, and 

 shall be registered in the Journal Book of the Society as such : Provided 

 always, that no such person shall have liberty to Vote at any Election 

 or meeting of the Society before he shall be qualified pursuant to the 

 Statutes. And if he shall neglect so to qualify himself the first time 

 he comes to London when he may be present at a meeting of the 

 Society and can be admitted ; his Election shall be declared Void, and 

 his Name shall be cancelled in the Register. 



" III. No Person shall be Proposed, Elected, or Admitted a Fellow 

 of the Society upon St. Andrew's Day or the Day of the Anniversary 

 meeting for Electing the Council and Officers." 



These appear in the Edition of 1752 as Sees. 8 and 9 respectively 

 of Cap. VI. 



