ABSTRACT OF THE LAWS 
OF THE SOCIETY, 
RELATING TO THE PRIVILEGES AND PAYMENTS OF MEMBERS. 
The Property of the Society is vested in the Subscribing Members 
collectively. Every Subscribing Member has a right to attend and 
vote at the Meetings of the Society, and is eligible to all its offices. 
He has access to the Museum and Library, and the privilege of 
taking out or sending for Books, and of introducing Visitors. In the 
new Institution, he will also have access to the Botanic Garden ; and 
(by a Law passed at the Annual Meeting, 3rd of February, 1829,) 
the privilege of frequenting the Gardens is extended to the adult 
members of his family residing under his roof. 
A new Member may be balloted for at any one of the General 
Meetings of the Society, which are held on the first Tuesdays of 
January, February, March, April, July, October, November, and 
December. His recommendation, signed by three Subscribing 
Members, must be hung up in the Library, a week previous to the 
ballot. 
Each Member, on his admission, pays to the Treasurer Five 
Pounds ; and on every first day of January following, an Annual 
Subscription of Two Pounds, if resident within the County ; 
or if permanently residing out of the County, an Annual Subscription 
of One Pound. A Member may compound at any time for his 
Annual Subscriptions, by a payment of Twenty Pounds. 
Honorary Members have the same privileges as Subscribing 
Members, except the power of voting and eligibility to offices. 
Those assigned to Contributors to the Building Fund, not being 
Members of the Society, will be found at page 32, 
