9. Any Member or Associate wlio 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 Eoyal 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 Ro^'al Blood. 



IL Any Meniber 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 opj^ortunity 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 ex})elled, 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 Membei-s ami 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 atlvisable. 



14. The wliole jiroperty and effects of the Society shall be vested in 

 two or more Trustees, who shall be chosen at a General Meeting of ihe 

 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, 

 Funils, or Securities, for the time being, authorised by statute for the 



