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cuned in by other members. The board of officers and council may al?o 

 nominate candidates for membership ; and such nominations shall be cer- 

 tified to the Society by minute thereof in Avriting, attested by the clerk of 

 said board. 



3. No person shall be balloted for, unless his nomination, with the 

 names of the members proposing him, or the minute of the board of officers 

 and council, made as aforesaid, shall have been publicly read to the 

 Society at the two stated meetings preceding that at which the balloting 

 takes place. Nor shall any person be deemed duly chosen unless three 

 fourths of the votes given shall be in his favor. 



4. Before entering upon an election for members, one of the secretaries 

 shall read the names of the several candidates ; and any member may 

 then, for the information of the Society, speak to their character and 

 qualifications for membership. 



5. The names of the candidates and their places of abode shall be desig- 

 nated on the ballots, and the names of the officers siiall be called in the 

 order of their seniority by the acting secretary, the members thereafter 

 depositing their ballots. The name of a candidate struck from a ballot 

 or not voted for shall be considered as a vote adverse to that candidate. 



6. After all the other business of the meeting shall have been disposed 

 of, the ballot box shall be opened by the secretaries, or in their absence 

 by two tellers, to be appointed by the presiding member, who shall then 

 declare to the Society the result of the poll. 



7. The members are mutually pledged not to mention out of the 

 Society the name of any candidate proposed, nor of any withdrawn or un- 

 successful candidate ; and the papers containing the names of the unsuc- 

 cessful candidates shall be destroyed immediately after the election. 



8. Every member, upon his introduction into the Society, shall be pre- 

 sented to the presiding officer, and shall subscribe the laws. 



9. Such members as reside within ten miles of the hall of the Society, 

 and such other members as desire to vote at the meetings and elections, 

 shall pay an admission fee often dollars, and annually thereafter, on the 

 first Frida}' of January, a contribution of five dollars. Tlie payment of 

 fifty dollars at one time, by a member not in arrears, shall exempt him 

 from all future annual payments. 



10. Members-elect, residing within ten miles of the hall, shall lose the 

 right of membership unless they subscribe the laws and pay their admis- 

 sion fee within one year after their election. Any member liable to an 

 annual contribution, who shall neglect or refuse to pay the same for the 

 term of two years, shall be notified by the treasurer in writing, on or be- 

 fore the second Friday in January alter such default, that his rights as a 

 member are suspended ; and, in case the said arrears, together with tlie 

 contribution due on the first Friday in January after such notice, shall 

 not be paid to the treasurer on or before the said last-named day, the 

 membership of such defaulting member shall be forfeited, his name 

 stricken from the roll, and reported to the Society by the treasurer. 



