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4. Foreign Honorary Members shall be chosen only after a nomination made at a meeting of 

 the Council, signed at the time by at least seven of its members, and read at a stated meeting 

 previous to that on which the balloting takes place. 



5. Three fourths of the ballots cast must be affirmative, and the number of affirmative ballots 

 must amormt to eleven, to effi^ct an election of Fellows or Foreign Honorary Members. 



6. Each section of the Academy is empowered to present lists of persons deemed best quali- 

 fied to fill vacancies occurring in the number of Foreign Honorary Members or Associate Fel- 

 lows allotted to it ; and such lists, after being read at a stated meeting, shall be referred to the 

 Council for Nomination. 



CHAPTER X. 



Op Amendments op the Statutes. 

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1. All proposed alterations of the statutes, or additions to them, shall be referred to a com- 

 mittee during the interval between two stated meetings, and shall reqiiire for enactment a 

 majority of two thirds of the members present, and at least eighteen affirmative votes. 



2. Standing Votes may be passed, amended, or rescinded, at any stated meeting, by a majority 

 of two thirds of the members present. They may be suspended by a imanimous vote. 



CHAPTER XI. 



Op Literary Perpormances. 



1. The Academy will not express its judgment on literary or scientific memoirs or perform- 

 ances submitted to it, or included in its publications. 



