120 RECORD OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY 



CHAP. VI Of the Election and Admission of Fellows. 



I. EVERY person to be elected Fellow of the Society shall first, at one 

 Meeting, be propounded as a Candidate, in order to Election ; and after, at 

 some other Meeting (whereat there shall be present a competent number for 

 making Elections) shall be propounded, and put to the vote for Election : 

 Excepting, that it shall be free for every one of his Majesty's subjects ot 

 England, Scotland, or Ireland, having the title and place of a Baron, or having 

 any higher title and place, and every one of his Majesty's Privy Council of any 

 of the said kingdoms, to be propounded, and put to the vote for Election, on 

 the same day, there being present a competent number for making Elections. 



II. Every Fellow, that is to propound any person as a Candidate, in order 

 to Election, shall, before the said person be propounded, make known unto 

 him the effect of the obligation to be subscribed, and the sum that is to be 

 paid for admission-money, and the rate of the constant payment for the 

 occasions of the Society ; and also, at the propounding of the said person, 

 shall satisfy the company that he hath informed him accordingly, and that 

 thereupon it is the desire of the said person to be of the Society. 



III. The name of every person propounded as a Candidate, in order to 

 Election for a Fellow of the Society, together with the name of the Fellow 

 proposing, shall be entered in the Journal-book. 



IV. In the Election of any person for a Fellow of the Society, the votes 

 shall be taken by way of ballot. 



V. Every person, elected a Fellow, shall appear for his admission at some 

 ordinary Meeting of the Society, which shall be within four weeks after his Elec- 

 tion ; or within such further time as shall be granted by the Society or Council, 

 upon cause shewed to either of them. Otherwise his Election shall be void. 



VI. The Admission of any Fellow of the Society shall be at some Meeting 

 thereof, in manner and form following : The President, taking him by the 

 hand, shall say these words, 



I do by the authority, and in the name of the Royal Society of London for 

 improving natural knowledge, admit you a Fellow thereof. 



VII. The Election and Admission of every person into the Society, with 

 the time thereof, shall be recorded in the Journal-book. 



CHAP. VII Of the Election of the Council and Officers. 

 ^ I. AT the two ordinary Meetings of the Society, which shall be within the 

 fifteen days next preceding the day of the Anniversary Elections, the President 

 shall give notice of the said Elections ; and declare how much it importeth 

 the good of the Society, that such persons may be chosen into the Council, as 

 are most likely to attend the Meetings and business of the Council, out of 

 whom there may be made the best choice of the President and other Officers. 

 II. Every Fellow of the Society, in or near London, shall be called to the 

 Anniversary Meetings, for electing the Council and Officers for the year ensuing. 



