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II. STATUTES ENACTED IN 1847 



CHAP. I Of the Election and Admission of Fellows. 



I. No person shall be proposed, elected, or admitted a Fellow of the Society 

 on the day of the Anniversary Meeting for electing the Council and Officers. 



II. Every Fellow, previously to his proposing a person as a Candidate for 

 election, shall inform him of the Obligation to be subscribed, of the sum to be 

 paid for admission money, and of the payments to be made to the Society, 

 before he can be admitted a Fellow. 



III. Every such Candidate shall be proposed and recommended by a 

 certificate in writing signed by six or more Fellows, of whom three at least 

 shall certify their recommendation from personal knowledge. The certificate 

 shall specify the name, rank, profession, qualifications, and usual place of 

 residence of the Candidate ; and being delivered to one of the Secretaries, 

 shall be entered in a book to be kept for the purpose, with the date of delivery 

 and particulars as stated thereon. 



IV. Any one of Her Majesty's subjects, who is a Prince of the Blood Royal, 

 or a Peer of the United Kingdom, or one of her Majesty's Privy Council, and 

 any Foreign Sovereign Prince, or the Son of a Sovereign Prince, may, never- 

 theless, be proposed at one of the ordinary Meetings of the Society by any one 

 Fellow, and upon being seconded by another Fellow, may be put to the Vote 

 for Election on the same day, provided public notice of such proposition shall 

 have been given by the proposer at the preceding Meeting of the Society. 



V. At the first ordinary Meeting of the Society in March 1848, the names 

 of all Candidates duly proposed after the first day of March 1847, and in 

 subsequent years at the first ordinary Meeting in March, the names of all 

 Candidates proposed subsequently to the first Meeting in March of the 

 preceding year, shall be announced by the Secretary from a list arranged in 

 alphabetical order, without reference to the dates of the certificates of the 

 Candidates; and these certificates shall be suspended in the Meeting-room 

 until the day of Election. 



VI. In the first week in April, a list shall be printed, containing the names 

 of all the Candidates so announced at the first Meeting in March, arranged 

 in alphabetical order without reference to the dates of the certificates, together 

 with the names of the Fellows by whom each Candidate is proposed and 

 recommended ; and a copy of such list shall immediately thereafter be sent to 

 every Ordinary Fellow. 



VII. The Council shall select by ballot from such printed list of Candidates 

 a number not exceeding fifteen, to be recommended to the Society for election ; 

 but no such selection by the Council shall be valid unless eleven Members at 

 least be present and vote, a majority deciding, or in the event of equality the 

 President or his deputy having a casting vote. 



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