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7. The form and manner of tlie election of the President and 

 Council is as follows : — 



{a) On the fii'st Monday in March of every year, the 

 President and Council shall meet, and shall prepare a list of 

 forty-tliree names (tlie names of the then subsisting 

 President and Council being included). 



(J)) This list shall be divided into three Sections, the 

 first containing the name of the subsisting President, the 

 second consisting of twenty-two names, and the thii'd of 

 twenty names, being those of the then subsisting Committees 

 of Science and of Polite Literature and Antiquities, and of 

 such other persons as shall be deemed qualified to serve on these 

 Committees, respectively. 



In this list the number of meetings of the Council, of its 

 stated Committees, and of the Academy, respectively attended 

 by each Member, shall be printed, as well as the date of his 

 election to the Council. 



{c) The President for the expiring year, if retiring from the 

 Chair in accordance with § 4, supra, shall be considered as 

 eligible to one of the Committees of Council. 



{d) The list of forty-three names, when prepared, shall be 

 forthwith hung up in a public room of the Academy, and shall 

 there remain until the day of election. 



{e) A printed copy of the said list shall also be forwarded to 

 each Member of the Academy, with his summons for the Stated 

 Meeting, at which the election is to take place, out of which 

 list of 43 names, the said Corporation shall elect a President 

 and Council for the next ensuing year after such form and 

 m^anner as the President and Council, with the approbation 

 of the Academy, shall have ordained. 



(/) In voting, each Member shall, in the printed list so 

 provided, prefix the letter P to the name of such Member as he 

 may desire to elect President, and an asterisk to the name of each 

 Member whom he may desire to place upon the Council, but the 



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