6 



Royal Dublin Society, he is admissible without payment of the 

 admission fee of £1, and may compound for life by payment of £7- 



4. The annual subscription shall be due on the first of 

 January in each year, and shall be payable in advance. 



5. If the subscription of any Member is not paid within one 

 year after it is due, he shall cease to be a Member until he shall 

 have paid up his arrears. 



6. No person becoming a Member after the first day of Octo- 

 ber in any year shall be liable for the subscription of that year. 



7. No person shall exercise the privileges of a Member until 

 he shall have paid his subscription for the current year. 



8. Ladies may be admitted as Members upon the same terms, 

 and with the same privileges, as gentlemen. 



9. Each Member of the Society shall have privilege of free 

 admission to the Gardens for himself and two companions, and 

 with any number of his children tinder twelve years of age. 

 Wives of Members have similar privileges in absence of their 

 husbands ; and Governesses or other female residents in a 

 Member's house are admitted with his children on having a card 

 properly .filled up. Such cards can be supplied by the Secretaries 

 of the Society, on application. 



Chapter III HONORARY MEMBERS. 



1. Distinguished persons may be elected Honorary Members, 

 without annual or other payment, by a vote of the Society, at 

 any of its meetings, upon the previous recommendation of the 

 Council. 



2. Honorary Members shall have the same privileges as other 

 Members, except that of voting at the meetings. 



3. The number of Honorary Members limited to twenty. 



Chapter IV THE OFFICERS. 



The President. 



1. The President shall preside at all meetings of the Society 

 and Council, when present, and shall generally superintend the 

 affairs of the Society. 



