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Bye-Laws. 
Election. 
Duration of 
Jlembeiship, 
Governors, 
and Members. 
Subscription. 
Foreign 
bers. 
Privileges. 
Kejrister. 
Honorary Jlein- 
bers. 
proposal shall be read at the Council at wliicli sncli 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. At tbe next monthly 
Meeting of the Council the election shall take place, when the 
decision of the Coimcil shall be taken by a show of hands ; the 
majority of the Members present to elect or reject. The Secre- 
tary shall inform Members of their election by a letter, in such 
form as the Council may from time to time direct. 
26. 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. Governors shall pay an annual 
subscription of 5/., and Members of IZ. ; all subscriptions being due 
on the 1st of January in each year; but when the election takes 
place in December, the subscription paid in that month will be 
considered as the subscription of the following year. Governors 
may compound for their lives by paying 50/. ; Members, "hj 
paying 10/. Governors or Members not resident in the United 
Kingdom are required on election to pay the life composition, in 
each case, for annual subscriptions. On and after the 1st of June, 
the subscriptions due at that date, and lemaining unpaid, arc in 
arrear ; and no Member whose subscription is so in arrear 
shall enjoy any of the privileges of the Society; nor will 
any such Member be allowed to enter into a composition for 
his future payments until such arrear be paid : and no Governor 
or Member shall be allowed to transfer his name from one class 
of Members to the other, respectively, Avithout the express leave 
of the Council. 
27. Governors have the privilege of attending and speaking at 
all Meetings of tbe Council, but not of voting, unless forming 
part of siich Council. All Members are entitled, gratuitously, 
to the numbers of the Journal belonging to the year for which 
their subscription is paid ; and have the privilege of inspecting 
all models presented to the Society, and of referring to the books 
in the library. 
28. An alphabetical Eogistor shall be kept of all the Governors 
and Members, exhibiting the date of their election, and the sub- 
scriptions received or due from them, with the dates respectively 
of payment and arrear. 
29. The Covmcil, having the power of electing Honorary Mem- 
bers, shall elect as Honorary Members such emiiaent individuals 
