4. Upon such application being transmitted to one of the Secretaries, 

 the candidate for admission 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 

 shall 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 ipso facto pledging all who are thereupon admitted 

 as Members or Associates to observe the Eules and Bye-Laws of the 

 Society, and as indicative of their desire and intention to further its 

 objects and interests ; and it is also to be understood that only such as 

 are professedly Christians a.re 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 constitute 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 ; 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 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 Eules 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 



