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LAWS OF THE SOCIETY. 



Case of Fellows 

 becoming Non- 

 Resident. 



from any further payment. In the case of any Resident Fellow ceasing to reside 

 in Scotland, and wishing to continue a Fellow of the Society, it shall be in the 

 power of the Council to determine on what terms, in the circumstances of each 

 case, the privilege of remaining a Fellow of the Society shall be continued to 

 such Fellow while out of Scotland. 



Defaulters. 



Privileges of 

 Ordinary Fellows. 



Numbers Un- 

 limited. 



V. 



Members failing to pay their contributions for three successive years (due 

 application having been made to them by the Treasurer) shall be reported to 

 the Council, and, if they see fit, shall be declared from that period to be no 

 longer Fellows, and the legal means for recovering such arrears shall be 

 employed. 



VI. 



None but Ordinary Fellows shall bear any office in the Society, or vote in 

 the choice of Fellows or Office-Bearers, or interfere in the patrimonial interests 

 of the Society. 



VII. 



The number of Ordinary Fellows shall be unlimited. 



Fellows entitled to 

 Transactions. 



VIII. 



The Ordinary Fellows, upon producing an order from the Treasurer, shall 

 be entitled to receive from the Publisher, gratis, the Parts of the Society's 

 Transactions which shall be published subsequent to their admission. 



Mode of Recom- 

 mending Ordinary 

 Fellows. 



IX. 



Candidates for admission as Ordinary Fellows shall make an application in 

 writing, and shall produce along with it a certificate of recommendation to the 

 purport below,* signed by at least four Ordinary Fellows, two of whom shall 

 certify their recommendation from personal knowledge. This recommendation 

 shall be delivered to the Secretary, and by him laid before the Council, and 

 shall be exhibited publicly in the Society's Rooms for one month, after which 

 it shall be considered by the Council. If the Candidate be approved by the 

 Council, notice of the day fixed for the election shall be given in the circulars 

 of at least two Ordinary Meetings of the Society. 



* " A. B., a gentleman well versed in Science (or Polite Literature, as the case may be), being 

 " to our knowledge desirous of becoming a Fellow of tbe Eoyal Society of Edinburgh, we hereby 

 " recommend him as deserving of that honour, and as likely to prove a useful and valuable Member." 



