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Secor. 8, Nominations for officers shall be made at the 
close of the first daily meeting of a stated session ; and no 
candidate shall be voted for unless thus nominated. 
Sect. 4.* For election of members, the Council shall 
first decide the Class in which the vacancy shall be filled. 
Each Section of that Class may then select one or more 
candidates, after a discussion of their qualifications, and 
present their claims to the Class, who shall select three to 
be presented, in the order of their preference, to the Acad- 
emy; from these three the Academy shall elect by a ma- 
jority of the members present. The member elect shall 
be assigned to the Section in which he has been proposed. 
The Academy may nominate candidates in any Section 
which fails to propose them for itself, provided that it shall 
first be decided by a vote of two thirds that such nomination 
is proper and advisable. 
Sror. 5. Every member elect shall accept: his member- 
ship personally or in writing, before’the close of the next 
stated session after the date of his election. Otherwise, on 
proof that the Secretary has formally notified him of his 
election, his name shall not be entered on the roll of members. 
Secr. 6. Elections of Foreign Associates shall be con- 
ducted as follows ; — 
Section shall report to its Class, nominating a can- 
didate whose special researches need not belong within the 
Province of the Section, but must be comprised within the — 
Tange of the Class, 
From these candidates each Class shall select one name 
to be presented to the Academy, and from these two names 
the Academy, after full discussion, s shall make the election, 
at such time as it may have previously —— for the 
purpose, 
* Amended August 25, 1865. 
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