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Fellow out of the Society, the subject shall be laid before the Council ; and if 

 a majority of the Council shall, after due deliberation, determine by ballot to 

 propose to the Society the ejection of the said Fellow, the President shall in 

 that case, at some ordinary Meeting of the Society, announce from the Chair 

 auch determination of the Council ; and at the Meeting next after that at 

 which the said announcement has been made, the Society shall proceed to 

 determine the question ; and on its appearing that two-thirds of the Members 

 present have voted for the ejection of the said Fellow, the President shall 

 proceed to cancel his name in the Register, and at the same time pronounce 

 him ejected in these words : 



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

 improving natural knowledge, declare A. B. to be now ejected, and no 

 longer a Fellow thereof. 



And the Ejection of every such person shall be then recorded in the Journal- 

 book of the Society ; and his name, as ejected, be also read at the next 

 Anniversary Meeting for elections. 



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



I. AT the two ordinary Meetings of the Society, next preceding the day of 

 the Anniversary Election, the President shall give notice of the said Election ; 

 and declare how much it imports 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 a 

 President and other Officers. 



II. Every Fellow of the Society, in or near London, or within what was 

 formerly the limit of the three-penny post, and whose residence is known, 

 shall have notice of the Anniversary Meeting for electing the Council and 

 Officers for the year ensuing, by particular summons, which summons shall be 

 sent to the place of residence of such Fellow, a week at the least before the 

 day of Meeting ; and shall be to this effect : 



These are to give notice, that on the day of 



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 precisely. 



III. The Council for the ensuing year, out of which shall be chosen the 

 President, Treasurer, Principal Secretaries, and Foreign Secretary, shall consist 

 of eleven Members of the existing Council, and of ten Fellows who are not 

 Members of the existing Council x . 



IV. The President and Council shall, previous to the Anniversary Meeting, 

 nominate, by ballot, eleven Members of the existing Council, and also ten 

 Fellows, not Members of the existing Council, whom they recommend to the 



1 At present one half of the Members of Council go out by rotation. 



