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Member, after his election, a diploma of his election, under the common 
seal of the Society. 
22. Honorary and Corresponding Members shall be exempted from 
the payment of any annual subscription. They shall be entitled to free 
admission to the Society's Rooms, Gardens, and Library, and to all 
Exhibitions and Conferences. 
23. The provisions herein contained with respect to the removal of a 
Fellow shall, with the necessary variations, apply to the removal of 
Honorary and Corresponding Members. 
CHAPTER YI. 
designation, Removal, and Disqualification of Fellows and Associate- 
members. 
24. If any Fellow or Associate-member refuse or neglect to pay his 
annual subscription for the space of six calendar months next after it has 
become due, or neglects or fails to observe or conform to the bye-laws and 
regulations of the Society, the Fellows assembled at a general meeting 
may, by resolution, declare such Fellow or Associate-member to have 
forfeited his rights and privileges as such, and he shall thereupon cease 
to be a Fellow or Associate-member. Nevertheless he shall continue liable 
to the payment of all arrears of subscription due to the Society, and the 
Society may recover the same by process of law. 
25. Any Fellow or Associate-member w^ho desires to retire from the 
Society shall be at liberty to do so, provided that he shall have paid all 
•subscriptions and arrears and other sums, if any, due from him to the 
Society, and shall have returned or made full compensation for any books 
or other property borrowed or taken by him from the Society, by giving 
to the Secretary, before December 31 in any year, at the offices of the 
Society, a written notice of such his desire ; but until the receipt of such 
notice every Fellow or x\s30ciate-member, unless removed from the Society 
under the bye-laws, shall remain liable for all continuing accumula- 
tions of annual subscriptions. 
26. If any Fellow or Associate-member purpose to reside abroad for 
more than a year, and give due notice of such his intention in a letter 
^iddressed to the Secretary at the offices of the Society, the Council may 
release him from all payments to the Society accruing due during the 
time of his residence abroad ; but he shall not, during such period, enjoy 
any of the rights or privileges of a Fellow or Associate-member. 
27. A Fellow, Honorary or Corresponding member, or Associate-mem- 
ber may be removed from the Society by a vote of a general meeting, but no 
proposal for such removal shall be submitted to or entertained by such 
meeting until (a) a proposal for such removal stating in full the reasons 
for such removal, signed by ten Fellows of the Society, shall have been 
delivered to the Secretary at the office of the Society ; and {b) a resolution 
•of the Council that a iwimd facie case has been made out for such 
removal shall have been passed. In the event of a compliance with both 
of these conditions, a general meeting of the Fellows of the Society shall 
