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CHAPTER II. 



ELECTION AND ADMISSION OF MEMBERS. 



1. Ordinary Members. 



1. Ordinary Members are elected [at the Stated General Meeting 

 in the month of March in each year. 



2. Every Candidate shall be proposed and recommended by a 

 Certificate in writing signed by five or more Members, of whom three, 

 at least, shall certify their recommendations from personal knowledge. 

 The Certificate shall specify the name, rank, profession, qualifica- 

 tions, and usual place of residence of the Candidate, and when 

 delivered to the Secretary shall be read out at the next ordinary 

 Meeting and shall be hung up in a public room of tho Academy. 

 At the first ordinary Meeting of the Academy in February the 

 names of all Candidates proposed subsequently to the Stated 

 Meeting in March of the preceding year shall be read out by the 

 Secretary from a list arranged in alphabetical order, and a copy of 

 such list shall be sent to each Member with the Notice Paper for the 

 Meeting next following. At the Council Meeting on the third 

 Monday in February, the Council shall select by ballot from the 

 printed list of Candidates a number not exceeding twelve to be 

 recommended to the Academy for election. At such Meeting eleven 

 Members must be present and voting; a majority deciding, or in the 

 event of an equality the President or Chairman having a second or 

 casting vote. At the Academy Meeting on the fourth Monday in 

 February the President or Chairman shall read from the Chair the 

 names of the Candidates whom the Council recommend, arranged in 

 alphabetical order, and such select list shall be forwarded to each 

 Member with the notice Paper for the Stated Meeting in March. At 

 the Stated Meeting in March each Member present and voting shall 

 deliver to the Chairman one of the select lists, having erased the 

 name of any Candidate or Candidates for whom he does not vote, and 

 if he shall have thought fit, having substituted the name of any 

 other Candidate or Candidates contained in the original printed list. 



