io HISTORY of the SOCIETY. 



V. 



Members failing to pay their subscriptions for three successive years, 

 due application having been made to them by the Treasurer, shall cease 

 to be Members of the Society, and the legal means for recovering such 

 arrears shall be employed. 



VI. 



None but Ordinary Members are to bear any office in the Society, or 

 to vote in the choice of Members or Office-bearers, nor to interfere in 

 the patrimonial interest of the Society. 



VII. 



The number of Ordinary Members shall be unlimited. 



VIII. 



The Ordinary Members shall receive the volumes or parts of the So- 

 ciety's Transactions, when published, at the booksellers price, or the 

 price at which they are sold to the trade. This regulation to continue 

 in force for five years from the date of its enactment ; and it is left to the 

 Society then to consider, whether the volumes cannot be afforded gratis 

 to the Members. 



IX. 



The Society having formerly admitted as Non-resident Members, 

 gentlemen residing at such a distance from Edinburgh as to be unable 

 regularly to attend the Meetings of the Society, with power to such 

 Non-resident Members, when occasionally in Edinburgh, to be present 

 at the Society Meetings, and to take a part in all their inquiries and 

 proceedings, without being subjected to any contribution for defraying 

 the expences of the Society ; it is hereby provided, that the privileges 

 of such Non-resident Members already elected shall remain as before ; 

 but no Ordinary Members shall be chosen in future under the title 

 and with the privileges of Non-resident Members. The Members at 

 present called Non-resident shall have an option of becoming Ordinary 

 Members ♦, if they decline this, they shall continue Non-resident as for- 

 merly. 



X. 



