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9. 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. 
10, 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. 
11. Any Member or Associate may withdraw from the Society at any 
time, by signifying a desire to do so by letter, 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. 
12. 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 
Society ; but, if deemed necessary by the Council, a Special General 
Meeting of Members shall be called for the purpose of considering 
the propriety of expelling any such person: whereat, if eleven or more 
Members shall ballot, and a majority of those balloting shall vote that 
such person be expelled, he shall be expelled accordingly. One month’s 
notice, at least, shall be given to the Members of any such Special General 
Meeting. 
13. Non-resident Members and Associates, or others desirous of 
promoting the objects and interests of the Institute, may be elected by 
the Council to act as corresponding Members abroad, or as Honorary 
Local Secretaries, if within the United Kingdom, under such arrange- 
ments as the Council may deem advisable. 
14. The whole property and effects of the Society shall be vested in 
two or more Trustees, who shall be chosen at a General Meeting of the 
Society. The Trustees are empowered to invest such sums as the Council 
may, from time to time, place in their hands, in, or upon any of the Stocks, 
Funds, or Securities, for the time being, authorized by statute for the 
