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III. STATUTES OF 1905, NOW (1912) IN FORCE 



CHAP. I Of the Election and Admission of Fell 



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 certi- Certificate of 

 ficate in writing signed by six or more Fellows, of whom three at least shall C andidature - 

 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, or to the 

 Assistant Secretary, shall be registered, with the date of delivery, in a book to 

 be kept for the purpose, and read at the next ordinary meeting ; and, unless 

 otherwise ordered, shall be suspended in some convenient place in the apart- 

 ments of the Society until the day of election. 



IV. At the first Ordinary Meeting of the Society in January, the names of Names of 

 all Candidates proposed prior to the first day of that month, and subsequently ^e ldates 

 to the last announcement of the names of Candidates, and also the names of announced 

 those Candidates whose certificates have been resuspended as hereinafter pro- In 

 vided, shall be announced by one of the Secretaries from a list arranged in 

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

 Candidates ; and these certificates shall remain suspended until the day of 

 Election. 



V. In the first week in February, a list shall be printed, containing the List of 

 names of all the Candidates so announced at the first Meeting in January, 

 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. 



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

 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 having a second or casting vote. 



VII. At the first Ordinary Meeting of the Society in March, the President Selected 

 shall read from the Chair the names of the Candidates whom the Council have 

 selected as most eligible, arranged in alphabetical order ; and after such Fellows. 



