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in the presence of the Council, concerning his qualifications, whether they be 

 such as are required in a Curator. 



V. Whensoever any person is to be tried and examined before the Council, 

 in order to election for the office of a Curator to the Society, and whensoever 

 any such person is to be recommended from the Council to the Society for the 

 said election, every Member of the Council shall be summoned to the Meeting, 

 with express notice of the occasion thereof. 



VI. Every person, propounded to the Society for the office of a Curator, 

 shall, before his examination by the Council, visit every Member thereof in 

 or near London, declaring to him his desire and intention for the said place ; 

 except such visitation be dispensed with by order of the Society or Council. 



VII. Every person, approved by the Council for a Curator to the Society, 

 shall be recommended from the Council to the Society, in order to election, at 

 some Meeting a week or longer before the intended election-day ; and if any 

 person proposed, and not approved or recommended, shall find himself 

 aggrieved, or think that right hath not been done him, it shall be free for him 

 to appeal, or make his case known to the Society. 



VIII. Every person, propounded to the Society for election into the office of 

 a Curator, shall at the first be elected for one year of probation only (except 

 the Society shall by vote taken by ballot resolve otherwise, in consideration 

 of the known merit of any particular person), and at the end of that year the 

 said person shall either be elected for perpetuity, or for a longer time of 

 probation, or shall be rejected. 



IX. In order to the election of persons for Curators, the Fellows of the 

 Society shall be summoned, in the same manner and form, mutatis mutandis, 

 as is provided for the Anniversary Election of the Council and Officers. 



X. The election of every person for a Curator shall be after this manner : 

 The names of all the competitors for a Curator's place shall first be read, and 

 then be put to the ballot, in order as they stand recommended by the Council 

 to the Society, adding such as, upon appeal, shall be ordered by the Society : 

 and when any one hath the plurality of suffrages, he shall stand elected, 

 without any further proceeding upon any other of the competitors ; and the like 

 method shall be for every vacant place : and in case of non-election it shall be 

 resolved by the Society, whether there shall be a proceeding again upon the 

 same person or persons at that Meeting, or any adjournment of the election to 

 another day. 



XI. For the electing of a Curator for a longer time of probation, or for 

 l>erpetuity, the same rules concerning the summons for the Meetings shall be 

 observed, as in election for probation ; and the question shall be determined 

 by the major part of the votes taken by ballot. 



XII. Every person elected Curator by office, shall also be a Fellow of the 

 Society, and shall subscribe the obligation to be subscribed by every Fellow ; 

 and be admitted Fellow in the usual form, if he were not so before ; neither 



