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suffrages do so require. And if the persons having the majority of votes, or 

 the persons remaining upon the aforesaid reduction, do not amount to the 

 number of eleven, then all the rest upon that list shall be put to the scrutiny 

 again, and every Fellow shall mark, as before, so many, and no more, as are 

 wanting ; and the method thereupon in all things shall be the same, as before, 

 until the number be complete. And in case of equal distribution of votes, 

 the number being greater than the number wanting, the proceeding shall be 

 repeated upon the said persons ; and if then they have still equal votes, the 

 President shall seclude one by lot, and the rest shall be put to the scrutiny again. 



VII. For the Election of the ten Fellows not of the present Council, to be 

 added to the former eleven, to constitute the Council for the year next ensuing, 

 the proceedings upon the printed lists of the Fellows of the Society shall be in 

 all particulars observed, as upon the former lists, according as the cases shall 

 require. 



VIII. In case of seclusion of any Member of the present Council, or of any 

 other Fellow by lot, the same person shall be brought in again to pass the 

 scrutiny, by putting him in competition with one that hath the least, or with 

 more of those that have the least equal number of votes. 



IX. Forasmuch as the possible varieties in the equalities, and proportions, 

 of suffrages distributed among several persons, upon which Non-elections may 

 happen, are so great and manifold, that it would be tedious to obviate them 

 all in particular by Statutes : if therefore any case shall happen not provided 

 for, whereupon the Election cannot be made, or perfected, the same shall be 

 adjourned to the next convenient time ; and the Council in the interim shall 

 make provision, and offer some expedient to the Society, for the effecting thereof. 



X. For electing the President, Treasurer, and Secretaries, every Fellow 

 present at the Anniversary Election of the Council shall, after the Election 

 made for the Members of the new Council, put upon a distinct list several 

 marks, first for the President, next for the Treasurer, and then for the 

 Secretaries, to be chosen severally out of the said new Council, for the year 

 following ; and the proceedings therein shall be after the same manner, as is 

 directed for the Anniversary Elections of the Council. 



XI. For electing any Member of the Council, or any Officer to be elected 

 by the Society, upon such vacancies, as shall happen in the intervals of the 

 Anniversary Elections, the summons for such Election, and the proceedings in 

 it, shall be after the same manner, as is directed for the Anniversary Elections. 



XII. Upon the vacancy of the President's place, which shall happen in 

 the intervals of the Anniversary Elections, one of the Secretaries shall cause 

 the Council to be summoned for the Election of a new President ; and the 

 Council meeting thereupon in the usual place, or any eleven or more of them, 

 shall proceed to the said Election, and not separate until the major part of the 

 number aforesaid shall have agreed upon a new President. 



