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d. The names of the candidates and their places of abode 

 shall be designated on the ballots, and the names of the officers 

 shall be called in the order of their seniority by the acting 

 secretary, the members thereafter depositing their ballots. 

 The name of a candidate struck from a ballot or not voted for 

 shall be considered as a vote adverse to that candidate. 



6. After all the other business of the meeting shall have been 

 disposed of, the ballot box shall be opened by the secretaries, 

 or in their absence by two tellers, to be appointed by the pre- 

 siding member, who shall then declare to the Society the result 

 of the poll. 



7. The members are mutually pledged not to mention out 

 of the Society the name of any candidate proposed, nor of 

 any withdrawn or unsuccessful candidate ; and the papers 

 containing the names of the unsuccessful candidates shall be 

 destroyed immediately after the election. 



8. Every member, upon his introduction into the Society, 

 shall be presented to the presiding officer, and shall subscribe 

 the laws. 



9. Such members as reside within ten miles of the hall of 

 the Society, and such other members as desire to vote at the 

 meetings and elections, shall pay an admission fee of ten dol- 

 lars, and annually thereafter, on the first Friday of January, a 

 contribution of five dollars. The payment of fifty dollars 

 at one time, by a member not in arrears, shall exempt him 

 from all future annual payments. 



10. Members-elect, residing within ten miles of the hall, 

 shall lose the right of membership unless they subscribe the 

 laws and pay their admission fee within one year after their 

 election. Any member liable to an annual contribution, who 

 shall neglect or refuse to pay the same for the term of two years, 

 shall be notified by the treasurer in writing, on or before the 

 second Friday in January after such default, that his rights 

 as a member are suspended ; and, in case the said arrears, to- 

 gether with the contribution due on the first Friday in Jan- 

 uary after such notice, shall not be paid to the treasurer on 

 or before the said last-named day, the membership of such 



