Minutes of Proceedings. 355 



With respect to the following By-Law : — 

 CHAPTEH II. 



ELECTION AND ADMISSION OF MEMBEKS. 



1. Ordinary Members. 

 2. Every Candidate shall be proposed and recommended by a 

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

 at least shall certify their recommendations from personal knowledge. 

 The certificate shall specify the name, profession, qualifications, 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 the 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 at least 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, at which there must be present and voting sixteen at least to 

 form a quorum, each Member 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. If a Candidate not on the select 

 list shall have received more votes than a Candidate on that list, the 

 former shall be declared elected instead of the latter ; and in the event 

 of an equality of votes the President or Chairman shall have a casting 



