1*11) PROCEEDINGS. 



RULES 



OF THE 



Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. 



I. — Name and Objects. 



1. The Name of the Society shall be "The Straits Asiattc 

 Society." 



%. The Objects of the Society shall be — 



a. The investigation of subjects connected with the 

 Straits of Malacca and the neighbouring 1 Countries. 



h\ The publication of papers in a Journal. 

 c. The formation of a Library of books bearing on the 

 objects of the Society. 



II. — Membership. 



3. Members shall be classed as Ordinary and Honorary. 



4. Ordinary Members shall pay an annual subscription of $6, 

 payable in advance on the 1st January of each year. 



5. Honorary Members shall pay no subscription. 



6. On or about the 80th June of every year, the Hon. Trea- 

 surer shall prepare a list of those Members whose subscriptions 

 for the current year remain unpaid, and such persons shall be 

 deemed to have resigned their Membership. But the operation 

 of this rule, in any particular case, may be suspended by a vote 

 of the Council of the Society. 



7. Candidates for Membership shall apply in writing to the 

 Secretary, and if approved of by the Council shall be recom- 

 mended by them to the Society at a General Meeting, and if 

 accepted by two thirds of the members present, shall be deemed 

 duly elected. 



8. Honorary Members must be proposed for election by the 

 Council at a General Meeting of the Society. 



