XV11. 



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. 



IXa. 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. 



IXb. 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. 



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." 



B b— 1890. 



