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

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

 admission as an Associate. 



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

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

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

 such 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 sliall be considered as elected unless he have 

 three-fourths 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 i2)so 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 fi.irther 

 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 Guineas. 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. 



8. 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 j 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 the Institute 

 shall be enrolled as a Yice-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 con- 

 nexion 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 withdi'aw 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 contribu- 



