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its next stated session, with a recommendation that it be ac- 
cepted or rejected. Its report shall be considered by the 
Academy in Committee of the Whole, and immediately 
thereafter acted on. If the addition or amendment receive 
two thirds of the votes present, it shall be declared adopted, 
and shall have the same force as the original law. 
EXPLANATORY CLAUSE. 
In consequence of differences of opinion in relation to the 
interpretation of Section 4 of Article IV. of the Constitution 
of the Academy, the following resolution was passed August 
3, 1864 :— 
“Resolved, That the Academy is of opinion that Section 4 
of Article IV. of the Constitution is to be interpreted to mean, 
that any Section of either Class making a nomination shall 
be restricted in the choice to persons eminent in the branch 
or branches of science understood to be included in the title 
of the Section.” 
