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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 attention 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. 
8. Each Member shall pay an Entrance Fee of One Guinea, which 
the Council may from time to time suspend, and an Annual Contribution 
of Two Guineas. A Donation of Twenty Guineas shall constitute the 
lonor a Life Member. 
9. Each Associate shall pay an Annual Contribution of One Guinea- 
A donation of Ten Guineas shall constitute the donor a Life Associate. 
10. 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. 
11. Any Member or Associate who contributes a donation in one sum 
of not less than Sixty Guineas to the funds of the Institute shall be 
enrolled as a Vice-Patron thereof, and will thus also become a Life 
Member or Life Associate, as the case may be. 
12. Should any member of the Royal Family hereafter become the 
Patron, or a Vice-Patron, or Member of the Institute, the connexion 
shall be regarded as purely Honorary ; and none of the Rules and Bye- 
Laws relating to donations, annual contributions or obligations to serve 
in any office of the Society, shall be considered as applicable to such 
personages of Royal Blood. 
13. Any Member or Associate may withdraw from the Society at any 
time, by signifying a desire to do so by ietter, addressed to one of the 
Secretaries ; but such shall be liable for the contribution of the current 
year, and shall continue liable for the annual contribution, until all sums 
due to the Society from such Member or Associate shall have been paid, 
and all books or other property borrowed from the Society shall have 
been returned or replaced. 
14, Should there appear cause, in the opinion of the Council, for the 
exclusion from the Society of any Member or Associate, a private 
intimation may be made by direction of the Council, in order to give 
such Member or Associate an opportunity of withdrawing from the 
