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power of the Treasurer, with the consent of the Council, to dispense (sub sikntio) with the payment 



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it advisable so to do. 



3. The nomination of Associate Fellows shall take place in the manner prescribed in reference 



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previous to that when the balloting takes place, it shall be referred to a Council for Nomination ; 

 and a written approval, authorized and signed at a meeting of said Council by at least seven of its 

 members, shall be requisite to entitle the candidate to be balloted for. The Council may in like 

 manner originate nominations of Associate Fellows ; which must be read at a stated meeting pre- 

 vious to the election, and be exposed on the nomination list during the interval. 



4 Foreign Honorary Members shall be chosen only after a nomination made at a meeting of tin- 

 Council, signed at the time by at least seven of its members, and read at a stated meeting previous 

 to that on which the balloting takes place. 



5. Three-fourths of the ballots cast must be affirmative, and the number of affirmative ballots 

 must amount to eleven, to effect an election of Fellows or Foreign Honorary Members. 



6. Each section of the Academy is empowered to present lists of persons deemed best qualified 

 to fill vacancies occurring in the number of Foreign Honorary Members or Associate Fellows 

 allotted to it ; and such lists, after being read at a stated meeting, shall be referred to the Council 

 for Nomination. 



7. If, in the opinion of a majority of the entire Council, any Fellow — Resident or Associate — 

 shall have rendered himself unworthy of a place in the Academy, the Council shall recommend to 

 the Academy the termination of his Fellowship ; and, provided that a majority of two-thirds of the 

 Fellows at a stated meeting, consisting of not less than fifty Fellows, shall adopt this recommenda- 

 tion, his name shall be stricken off the roll of Fellows. 



CHAPTER X. 



Of Amendments of the Statutes. 



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mittee, and, on their report at a subsequent meeting, shall require for enactment a majority of two- 



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2. Standing Votes may be passed, amended, or rescinded, at any stated meeting, by a majority 

 of two-thirds of the members present. They may be suspended by a unanimous vote. 



