Section 9. The Academies shall have power to estab- 

 lish Sections, with the approval of the Council, which 

 Sections shall each elect a Chairman and a Secretary. 



ARTICLE III. 



Composition. 



Section 1. The National Institute of Letters, Arts, and 

 Sciences, shall be composed of 



Members, appointed or elected as before specified. 

 They must be citizens of the United States, and at 

 least twenty-five years of age. 



Fellows, who shall be chosen from the Members by a 

 majority vote of the Council, upon the recommendation 

 of the Academies to which they severally belong, and 

 after maintaining a thesis before a meeting of the Mem- 

 bers of the Institute. Fellows shall not be more in 

 number than one in ten of the members of the several 

 Academies. A Member shall have attained the age of 

 thirty-five years before he is eligible to a Fellowship. 



Honorary Members, not exceeding twenty for each 

 Academy, and fifty for the Council. The former shall 

 be nominated by the Academy by a three-fourths vote, 

 and confirmed by a like vote of the Council ; the latter 

 shall be elected by a unanimous vote of the Council. 

 Honorary Members must be persons who have rendered 

 some marked services to Literature, Art, or Science, or 

 to the Institute. They may be either citizens or aliens. 



