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be considered to have become a Member, but the payment 

 of the Member's instead of the Associate's Subscription shall 

 not be exacted. (Annual Meeting 1884.) 



3. Any person desirous of becoming a Member or Associate shall 

 make application for admission by subscribing the Form A of the 

 Appendix, which must be signed by two Members of the Institute, 

 or by a Member of Council, recommending the candidate for admis- 

 sion as a Member; or by any one Member of the Institute, for 

 admission as an Associate. 



4. Upon such application being transmitted to one of the Secre- 

 taries, the candidate for admission may be elected by the Council, 

 and enrolled as a Member or Associate of the Victoria Institute, in 

 sucli manner as the Council may deem proper ; having recourse to 

 a ballot, if thought necessary, as regards the election of Members ; 

 in which case no person shall be considered as elected unless he have 

 three-foutths of the votes in his favour. 



5. Application for admission to join the Institute being thus made 

 by subscribing Form A, as before prescribed, such application shall 

 be considered as ipso facto pledging all who are thereupon admitted 

 as Members or Associates to observe the Rules and Bye-Laws of the 

 Society, and as indicative of their desire and intention to further 

 its objects and interests ; and it is also to be understood that only 

 such as are professedly Christians are entitled to become Members. 



6. Each Member shall pay an Entrance Fee of One Guinea and 

 an Annual Contribution of Two CTuineas. A Donation of Twenty 

 Guineas shall constitu.te the donor a Life Member. 



7. Each Associate shall pay an Annual Contribution of 'One 

 Guinea. A donation of Ten Guineas shall constitute the donor a 

 Life Associate, 



S. The Annual Contributions shall be considered as due in advance 

 on the 1st day of January in each year, and shall be paid within 

 three months after that date ; or, in the case of new admissions, 

 within three months after election. 



9. Any Member or Associate who contributes a donation in one 

 sum of not less than Sixty Guineas to the funds of tlie Institute 

 shall be enrolled as a Vice-Patrou thereof, and will thus also becomo 

 a Life Member or Life Associate, as the case may be. 



10. Should any member of the Royal Family hereafter become 

 the Patron, or a Vice-Patron, or ]\[ember of the Institute, the con- 



