356 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 
Title. 
The fees of 
Ordinary 
Fellows residing 
in Scotland. 
Payment to 
cease after 
25 years. 
Fees of Non- 
Resident 
Ordinary 
Fellows. 
Case of Fellows 
becoming Non- 
Resident. 
LAWS OF THE SOCIETY, 
As revised 2Qth October 1908. 
[By the Charter of the Society (printed in the Transactions, vol. vi. p. 5), the Laws cannot be 
altered, except at a Meeting held one month after that at which the Motion for alteration 
shall have been proposed.] 
I. 
THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH shall consist of Ordinary and 
Honorary Fellows. 
II. 
Every Ordinary Fellow, within three months after his election, shall pay Two 
Guineas as the fee of admission, and Three Guineas as his contribution for the 
Session in which he has been elected ; and annually at the commencement of every 
Session, Three Guineas into the hands of the Treasurer. This annual contribution 
shall continue for ten years after his admission, and it shall be limited to Two 
Guineas for fifteen years thereafter.* Fellows may compound for these contributions 
on such terms as the Council may from time to time fix. 
III. 
All Fellows who shall have paid Twenty-five years’ annual contribution shall be 
exempted from further payment. 
IY. 
The fees of admission of an Ordinary Non-Resident Fellow shall be £26, 5s., 
payable on his admission ; and in case of any Non-Resident Fellow coming to reside 
at any time in Scotland, he shall, during each year of his residence, pay the usual 
annual contribution of £3, 3s., payable by each Resident Fellow ; but after payment 
of such annual contribution for eight years, he shall be exempt from any further 
payment. In the case of any Resident Fellow ceasing to reside in Scotland, and 
wishing to continue a Fellow of the Society, it shall be in the power of the Council 
to determine on what terms, in the circumstances of each case, the privilege of 
remaining a Fellow of the Society shall be continued to such Fellow while out of 
Scotland. 
* A modification of this rule, in certain cases, was agreed to at a Meeting of the Society held on 
the 3rd January 1831. 
At the Meeting of the Society, on the 5th January 1857, when the reduction of the Contribu- 
tions from £3, 3s. to £2, 2s., from the 11th to the 25th year of membership, was adopted, it was 
resolved that the existing Members shall share in this reduction, so far as regards their future 
annual Contributions. 
