XII 



Candidates fur Admission. 



IX. Every candidate for admission as an ordinary member of 

 the Society shall bo recommended according to a prescribed form, 

 by not less than three members, to two of whom he must bo 

 personally known. 



Election of New Members. 



X. The names of such candidates, with the names of their 

 supporters, shall bo 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 Eundamental Rules and 

 Bye-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 obligations signed by himself. 



Members shall sign Rules — Formal admission. 



XIII. Every member who has complied with the preceding 

 Bye-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 

 thereof." 



