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Candidates for admission. 
IX. Every candidate for admission as an ordinary member of 
the Society shall be recommended according to a prescribed form, 
by not less than three members, to two of whom he must be 
personally known. 
Election of new Members. 
X. The names of such candidates, with the names of their 
supporters, shall be read by one of the Secretaries at an Ordinary 
General Meeting of the Society. The vote as to admission to 
take place by ballot at the next subsequent meeting. At the 
ballot the assent of at least four-fifths of the members voting 
shall be requisite for the admission of the candidate. 
New Members to be informed of their election. 
XI. Every new member shall receive due notification of his 
election, and be supplied with a copy of the obligation (No. 3 in 
Appendix), together with a copy of the Fundamental Rules and 
By-laws of the Society, a list of members, and a card of the 
dates of meeting. 
Members whose subscriptions are unpaid to enjoy no privileges. 
XII. An elected member shall not be entitled to attend the 
meetings nor to enjoy any privilege of the Society, nor shall his 
name be printed in the list of the Society, until he shall have 
paid his admission fee and first annual subscription, and have 
returned to the Secretaries the obligation signed by himself. 
Members shali sign Rules— Formal admission. 
XII. Every member who has complied with the preceding 
By-laws shall at the first Ordinary General Meeting at which 
he shall be present, sign a duplicate of the aforesaid obligation 
in a book to be kept for that purpose, after which he shall be 
presented by some member to the Chairman, who, addressing him 
by name, shall say :—‘ By the authority and in the name of the 
Royal Society of New South Wales I admit you a member 
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