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vacancies in the Council may be filled up by the Council from among 
the Members of the Society ; and the Members chosen as Trustees 
of the funds of the Institute shall be ex ojfficio Members of Council. 
3. Any person desirous of becoming a Member or Associate shall 
make application for admission by subscribing the Form A of the 
Appendix, which must be signed by two Members of the Institute, 
or by a Member of Council, recommending the candidate for admis- 
sion as a Member; or by any one Member of the Institute, for 
admission as an Associate. 
4. Upon such application being transmitted to one of the Secre- 
taries, the candidate for admission may be elected by the Council, 
and enrolled as a Member or Associate of the Yictoria Institute, in 
such manner as the Council may deem proper ; having recourse to 
a ballot, if thought necessary, as regards the election of Members ; 
in which case no person shall be considered as elected unless he have 
three-fourths of the votes in his favour. 
5. Application for admission to join the Institute being thus made 
by subscribing Form A, as before prescribed, such application shall 
be considered as ipso facto pledging all who are thereupon admitted 
as Members or Associates to observe the Rules and Bye-Laws of the 
Society, and as indicative of their desire and intention to further 
its objects and interests ; and it is also to be understood that only 
such as are professedly Christians are entitled to become Members. 
6. Each Member shall pay an Entrance Fee of One Guinea and 
an Annual Contribution of Two Guineas. A Donation of Twenty 
Guineas shall constitute the donor a Life Member. 
7. Each Associate shall pay an Annual Contribution of One 
Guinea. A donation of Ten Guineas shall constitute the donor a 
Life Associate. 
8. The Annual Contributions shall be considered as due in advance 
on the 1st day of January in each year, and shall be paid within 
three months after that date ; or, in the case of new admissions, 
within three months after election. 
9. Any Member or Associate who contributes a donation in one 
sum of not less than Sixty Guineas to the funds of the Institute 
shall be enrolled as a Yice-Patron thereof, and will thus also become 
a Life Member or Life Associate, as the case may be. 
10. Should any member of the Royal Family hereafter become 
the Patron, or a Yice-Patron, or Member of the Institute, the con- 
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