(xvii.) 



Every candidate for admission as an ordinary member of the 

 Society shall be recommended according to a prescribed form of 

 certificate by not less than three members, to two of whom the 

 candidate must be personally known. 



Such certificate must set forth the name, place of residence, 

 and qualifications of the candidate. 



The certificate shall be read at the three Ordinary General 

 Meetings of the Society next ensuing after its receipt, and during 

 the intervals between those three meetings, it shall be exhibited 

 in a conspicuous place in one of the rooms of the Society. 



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. 



X. The entrance fee and first annual subscription shall be 

 paid within two months from the date of election; otherwise the 

 election shall be void. 



The Council may, however, in special cases, extend the period 

 within which these payments must be made. 



XL Composition fees shall be treated as capital, and shall be 

 devoted to the Building Fund Account, or invested. 



New members to be informed of their election. 

 Xfl. Every new member shall receive due notification of his 

 election, and be supplied with a copy of the obligation (ISTo. 3 in 



BB-May 1, 1901. 



