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by particular summons signed by the President; which summons shall be 

 delivered to every such person, or left at his house or lodging, a week at the 

 least before the said day, together with printed lists of the names of the 

 Fellows of the Society. And the said summons shall be to this effect : 



These are to give notice, that on the day of being 



the Council and Officers of the Royal Society are to be elected for the year 

 ensuing ; at which Election your presence is expected, at of the clock 



in the 



III. For the Anniversary Election of the Council (which is to consist of 

 eleven Members of the present Council, to be continued for the year next 

 ensuing ; and ten of the Fellows, not being Members of the Council, to be 

 added to them) there shall be a competent number of lists printed of all the 

 Fellows of the Society (excepting all the Members of the present Council) in 

 an alphabetical 01 aer ; and a competent number of the like lists of all the 

 Members of the present Council ; both which lists shall be distributed to all 

 the Fellows of the Society, summoned to the Anniversary Election. 



IV. For the Election of the eleven Members of the present Council, to be 

 continued for the year next ensuing, every Fellow shall on the printed list 

 of the present Council, by a line drawn under each name, to the number of 

 eleven and no more, signify the persons to whom he giveth his suffrage for 

 their continuance, as aforesaid ; and closing up the said list shall deliver it in 

 to some person appointed to collect and receive the same. 



V. All the lists being thus collected, one of the Secretaries shall open them 

 one by one, and in the first place shall take notice of the number of the names 

 distinguished, as is before prescribed, in each list (which if it be above eleven 

 in any, the same list shall be laid aside, and no notice taken of the suffrages 

 therein) and shall recite every name so distinguished ; and the other Secretary 

 shall, in a list for that purpose, note how often every several name is recited ; 

 and each of the Secretaries shall be assisted by a Scrutator, to be drawn by 

 lot by the President. This done, the Secretaries and Scrutators shall sum up 

 the suffrages, according to the notes affixed to every name : or in case of the 

 absence of one or both the Secretaries, one or two Scrutators more (to be in 

 like manner drawn by lot) shall supply their places ; whereof two shall be em- 

 ployed in the perusal of the lists, and recitation of the names, and the other 

 two in the noting of the names recited, as is before prescribed. 



VI. After the noting and summing up of the votes, the Secretaries, or 

 Scrutators, shall recite all the names of the present Council having any votes 

 upon the present scrutiny, with the number of the votes to every name ; to 

 the end, that all the persons carrying the major part of the votes may be 

 known to be thus elected, if they be not more in number than eleven. But if 

 the persons, having the majority of votes, be more than eleven, he or they 

 (that have fewest suffrages) are to be secluded, until the number be reduced to 

 eleven ; or to a lesser number, if equality between persons having the fewest 



