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Society for election into the Council for the ensuing year. The President and 

 Council shall, also, in like manner, nominate, by ballot, out of the proposed 

 Council, the persons whom they recommend to the Society for election to the 

 offices of President, Treasurer, Principal Secretaries, and Foreign Secretary, 



for the ensuing year. 



V. At the ordinary Meeting of the Society preceding the Anniversary 

 Meeting, the names of such persons so recommended for election as Council 

 and Officers for the ensuing year, shall be announced from the Chair. 



VI. Lists, with the names of the Fellows recommended by the President 

 and Council, and having a blank column opposite for such alterations as any 

 Fellow may wish to make, shall be prepared for the use of the Fellows, one 

 week before the day of election. 



VII. Two Scrutators shall be nominated by the President, with the appro- 

 bation of the Society, to assist the Secretaries in examining the lists. 



VIII. Each Fellow voting, shall deliver his list to one of the Secretaries or 

 Scrutators ; and the name of each Fellow who shall so deliver in his list, shall 

 be noted by one of the Secretaries. 



IX. The Scrutators, after examining the lists with the Secretaries, shall 

 report to the Society the names of those having the majority of votes for 

 composing the Council, and filling the offices of President, Treasurer, Principal 

 Secretaries, and Foreign Secretary ; the names of which persons shall then be 

 announced from the Chair. 



X. 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 

 Election. 



XI. Upon any vacancy of the President's place, occurring in the intervals 

 of the Anniversary Elections, the Treasurer, or in his absence 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 them shall have agreed upon a new President. 



CHAP. VII Of the President, 



I. THE business of the President shall be to preside at all the Meetings, and 

 regulate all the debates, of the Society, Council, and Committees ; to state and 

 put questions both in the affirmative and negative, according to the sense and 

 intention of the Meetings ; to call for reports and accounts from Committees, 

 and others; to check irregularities, and to keep all persons to order; to 

 summon all Meetings of the Council, and Committee of Papers ; and to 

 execute, or see to the execution of, the Statutes of the Society. 



II. The President shall take precedence of every Fellow of the Society, at 



