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STATUTES OF THE 



on removing -within the State, shall be admitted to the privileges, and be subject to the obliga- 

 tions, of Resident Fellows. The number of Associate Fellows shall not exceed one hundred of 

 whom there shall not be more than forty in either of the three classes of the Academy. 



4. The number of Foreign Honorary Members shall not exceed seventy-jive ; and they shall 

 bo chosen from among persons most eminent in foreign countries for their discoveries and 

 attainments in cither of the three departments of knowledge above enumerated. And there 

 shall not bo more than thirty Foreign Members in either of these departments. 



CHAPTER II 



Of Officers. 



1. There shall be a President, a Vice-President, a Corresponding Secretary, a Recording 

 Secretary, a Treasurer, and a Librarian, which officers shall be annually elected, by written 

 votes, at the Annual Meeting, on the day next preceding the last Wednesday in May. 



2. At the same time and in the same manner, nine Councillors shall be elected, three from 



Vice 





Council for Nomination. 



duty 



supervision 



and preserve a due proportion in the number of Fellows and Members 



8. If any office shall become vacant during the year, the vacancy shall be filled by a new 



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d at the next stated meeting 



CHAPTER III 



Op the President. 



1. It shall 



meetin 



extraordinary meetings, upon any urgent occasion ; and to execute or see to the execution of 

 the Statutes of the Academy. 



2 The President, or, iu his absence, the next officer as above enumerated, is empowered 

 to draw upon the Treasurer for such sums of money as the Academy shall direct. Bills 



the 



of the Library, or the publications of the Academy, must 



