xlii 
BYE-LA\V8. 
Election of 
Governois and 
Jlembers. 
Commencement 
of Membei'ship, 
SulsciijitioD. 
Composition. 
Members not 
resident in 
the United 
Kingdom. 
Arrears. 
name, rank, usual place of residence, and post-town, of the can- 
didate, either at a Council-meeting, or by letter to the Secretary, 
Every such proposal shall be read at the Council-meeting at 
which it 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 the receipt of such letter. The Secretary shall then 
forward to the Candidate a printed copy of the Form [Ko. I. in 
the Appendix], for his signature ; and the election shall not take 
place until after the Candidate shall have returned it, signed by 
himself, and addressed to the Secretary at the House of the 
Society. At the next monthly Meeting of the Council, after 
the Form shall have been received duly signed, the election 
shall take place, when the decision shall be taken by a show of 
hands : the majority of the Members of Council present to elect 
or reject. The Secretary shall inform Governors and Members 
of their election by a letter [No. II. in the Appendix], in such 
form as the Council may from time to time direct. 
3. No person elected a Governor or Member shall be entitled 
to exercise any privilege as such, nor shall his name be printed 
in any list of the Society until he shall have paid his subscrip- 
tion, after which he shall be entitled to exercise all the privileges 
of a Governor or Member [as the case may be] ; and his name 
shall be entered in the lists of the Society. Governors shall pay 
an annual subscription of 5/., and Members of 1?. ; all subscrip- 
tions being due on the 1st of January in each year; but when 
tlie election takes place in December, the sTibscription paid in 
that month will be considered as the subscription of the following 
year. Governors may, at any time, compound for their sub- 
scription by a single payment of 50/. ; Members, by one of 101. 
If the subscription for the current year has already been paid, 
such payment shall be allowed in part of the composition. 
Governors or Members not resident in the United Kingdom are 
required on election to pay the life composition ; in each case, 
equivalent to ten annual subscriptions, On and after the 1st of 
June, the subscriptions remaining unpaid at that date are in 
arrear. No Governor or Member whose subscription is in arrear 
shall enjoy any of the jirivileges of the Society ; nor will any 
such Governor or Member be allowed to enter into a composition 
for his future payments until such arrear, excluding that for the 
current year, be paid. No Governor or Member shall be allowed 
to transfer his name from one class of Members to the other,, 
respectively, withortt the express leave of the Council. 
