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forty members shall have voted against his admission " ; 

 and as regards the admission fee, that it be left optional 

 whether the candidate shall pay a life composition of 

 twenty guineas, or a fee of five guineas and two guineas 

 annual subscription, and that persons admitted on 

 these terms shall cease to be members, if at any time 

 their annual subscriptions shall be one year in arrear, 

 unless the party so in arrear shall make a declaration 

 in writing to the Council that he has been absent from 

 the kingdom during the period for which the arrear 

 has been incurred. 



That associate subscribers should be admitted to 

 the Society for the term of one year, upon the recom- 

 mendation of two members of the Council, or payment 

 of two guineas, which payment must be made at the 

 time of admission. 



3. That the management of the ordinary business 

 of the Society should be confided to a Council, but 

 that it may be competent for thirty members to call a 

 general meeting of the Society, when any subject of 

 importance requires consideration, upon giving a notice 

 by advertisement at least fourteen days previous to the 

 day of meeting, of the time at which it will be held, 

 and of the subjects to be entertained. 



That no such meeting shall be called between the 

 ist of August and the ist of November, and that 

 there shall be no adjournment of such meeting without 

 a new notice. 



That the Council should be formed by the union 

 of the following committees, each of which should 

 consist of three members, elected by the Society ; one 

 member of each committee to go out annually ; and 

 that the Council should be empowered to associate 

 with each committee not more than three members of 

 the Council : 



