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SECTION XXV. 



ELECTION OF MEMBERS. 



Candidates for Life and Subscription Membership may be 

 proposed at any meeting of the Society. A.nd no person shall 

 be elected a member, unless his nomination shall have been 

 duly entered on the records, and his name posted in the Library 

 room for a term of four weeks, at least, previous to his election. 

 All elections shall be by ballot, and three black balls shall 

 exclude the candidate. 



SECTION XXVI. 



HONORARY AND CORRESPONDING MEMBERS. 



The Society may, (upon recommendation of the Executive 

 Committee) elect Honorary and Corresponding Members when- 

 ever they may deem it expedient, to each of whom the Corre- 

 sponding Secretary shall transmit a Diploma or Certificate of his 

 election, under the seal of the Society, signed by the President 

 and countersigned by the Recording Secretary ; and such mem- 

 bers, unless Professors of the Society, shall not be entitled to any 

 of the pecuniary, elective or controlling privileges of the Society. 



SECTION XXVII. 



LIFE MEMBERS. 



The payment of twenty dollars shall constitute a Life Mem- 

 bership, and exempt the member from all future assessments. 

 And any member, having once paid an admission fee, may 

 become a Life Member by the payment of fifteen dollars in 

 addition thereto. 



SECTION XXVIII. 



ADMISSION FEE AND ANNUAL ASSESSMENT. 



Each member, not designated in Sections XXVI and XXVII, 

 before he receives his Diploma or exercises the privileges of a 

 member shall pay the sum of five dollars as an admission fee, 

 and shall be subject afterwards to an annual assessment of two 

 dollars. 



