Rules, 373 



CONSTITUTION. 



5. Such of the present members of the Society hereto- 

 fore called the Literary and Philosophical Society of 

 Manchester as shall be desirous of becoming members 

 of the Company constituted by the foregoing Memo- 

 randum of Association, and shall respectively subscribe 

 these Articles of Association, or shall, within twelve 

 calendar months next after the incorporation of the 

 Company, either pay the hereinafter-mentioned composi- 

 tion for subscriptions of 25 guineas, or annual subscription 

 of 2/. 2J., or signify in writing to the Secretary for the 

 time being of the said Company their desire to become 

 members of the said Company, shall be the first and 

 present members of the said Company. 



6. The Society, so far as its constitutional and financial 

 powers, rights, and obligations are concerned, shall consist 

 of ordinary members only ; but it may elect and admit to 

 the ordinary meetings and to such of the privileges and 

 benefits of the Society as are not by these presents con- 

 fined to ordinary members, other persons who, according 

 to circumstances, shall be styled either corresponding 

 members or honorary members. 



7. Persons who have attained the age of twenty-one 

 years, and have given proof by their writings, researches, 

 or attainments of being duly qualified in those respects, 

 may be elected ordinary members 



8. The ordinary members shall be liable for all the 

 expenses of the Society, subject nevertheless to such 

 limitation of liability as is prescribed by the * Memo- 

 randum of Association,' and the ordinary members shall 

 alone be entitled to the property of the Society, and they 



