ELECTION, &c, OF MEMBERS. 



Nomination. — Every candidate for admission into the Society must be 

 proposed by a Member ; the proposer to specify in writing the name, rank, 

 usual place of residence, and post-town, of the candidate, either at a 

 Council, or by letter to the Secretary. Every such proposal shall be read 

 at the Council at which such proposal is made ; or, in the case of the 

 Candidate being proposed by a letter to the Secretary, at the first meeting 

 of the Council next after such letter shall have been received. 



Election. — At the next Meeting of the Council the election shall take 

 place, when the decision of the Council shall be taken by a show of 

 hands ; the majority of the Members present to elect or reject. The 

 Secretary shall inform Members of their election by a letter, in such form 

 as the Council may from time to time direct. 



Payments. — 1. Annual. — The subscription of a Governor is 5/. and that 

 of a Member 1/., due in advance on the 1st of January of each year, and 

 becoming in arrear if unpaid by the 1st of June. Members elected in 

 November or December may date the commencement of their liabilities 

 and privileges with the Society from the 1st of January in the ensuing year. 

 2. For Life. — Governors may compound for subscription during future life 

 by paying at once the sum of 50/., and Members by paying 10/. No Gover- 

 nor or Member in arrear of subscription can be allowed to enter into 

 composition for life until such arrears have been paid. 



Privileges. — The Journals of the Society for the year during which their 

 subscription has been paid, transmitted by post, free of charge, to their 

 address ; analyses performed at a reduced charge by the consulting chemist ; 

 the*liberty of attending all weekly Meetings of the Council in London, 

 and of consulting the books in the library ; free entry of stock, and priority 

 of claim for dinner and lecture tickets at the Country Meetings of the 

 Society. No Member in arrear of his subscription is entitled to any of the 

 privileges of the Society. 



Liabilities. — All Members belong to the Society, and are bound to pay 

 their annual subscriptions, until they shall withdraw from it by a notice in 

 writing to the Secretary. 



Resignation. — Members can only withdraw their names legally from the 

 Society by a written notice to the Secretary, and the payment of all sub- 

 scriptions due from them at the date of such notice. 



Expulsion. — Members may be dismissed from the Society in the fol- 

 lowing manner: — Any ten Members of the Society may send, in writing, 

 signed by their names, to the Council, a request that any Member of the 

 Society shall be dismissed from the Society. Such request shall be placed 

 in a conspicuous part of the Council-room, and a copy thereof transmitted 

 by the post to the Member proposed to be so dismissed, signed by the 

 Secretary. At the monthly Meeting of the Council which shall take 

 place next after one month shall have elapsed after such request shall 

 have been placed in the Council-room, the Council shall take the matter 

 thereof into their consideration ; but the Council shall not so take it into 

 consideration unless twelve Members of the Council at the least shall be 

 present. If this number is not present, the consideration of the request 

 shall be adjourned to the next monthly Meeting of the Council., and so on 

 till a monthly Meeting shall take place at which twelve Members are 

 present. If the Council so constituted shall unanimously agree to the 

 dismissal of such Member, he shall be no longer a Member of the Society; 

 but if they do not unanimously agree to' his dismissal, their decision shall 

 be considered to have been made in his favour : Provided always, that his 

 dismissal shall not relieve him from the payment of any debt previously 

 due by him to the Society ; and that if a Life-Governor or Life-Member, 

 he shall not have any claim to any portion of the commutation he has paid. 



