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The vote as to admission shall take place by ballot, at the 
Ordinary General Meeting at which the certificate is appointed 
to be read the third time, and immediately after such reading. 
At the ballot the assent of at least four-fifths of the members 
voting shall be requisite for the admission of the candidate. 
Entrance Fee and Subscriptions. 
IX. The entrance money paid by members on their admission 
shall be Two Guineas; and the annual subscription shall be 
Two Guineas, payable in advance; but members elected prior to 
December, 1879, shall be required to pay an annual subscription of 
One Guinea only as heretofore. 
The amount of ten annual payments may be paid at any time 
as a life composition for the ordinary annual payment. 
New Members to be informed of their election. 
X. 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 Rules of the Society, a 
list of members, and a card of the dates of meeting. 
Members shall sign Rules— Formal admission. 
XI. Every member who has complied with the preceding 
Rules 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 :—“In the name of the Royal Society of New South 
Wales I admit you a member thereof.” 
Annual subscriptions, when due. 
XII. Annual subseriptions shall become due on the Ist of 
May for the year then commencing. The entrance fee and first 
year’s subscription of a new member shall become due on the 
day of his election. 
