LAWS. 
1. The Society consists of persons united for the purposes stated 
in the preface, and who are denominated " Lecturing Members ; " 
these have the power of electing other Lecturing Members and 
Honorary, Corresponding, and Life Members, and of admitting 
Associates. 
2. The property of the Institution, the election of Members, 
management of the concerns, and enactment of laws, are vested 
exclusively in the Lecturing Members. 
3. Those persons only are eligible as Lecturing Members, who 
will undertake to deliver a lecture in their turn, when called on to 
do so by the Council, or in its name by the Secretaries. 
4. Every Lecturing Member shall be elected by ballot, after an 
application from the candidate to the President in writing — accom- 
panied by a recommendation (signed by three Lecturing Members) 
— shall have been submitted to the Society not less than seven 
days before the election. The ballot shall not be proceeded with 
unless six of the Lecturing Members at least be present, and a 
majority shall determine the election; but the candidate must 
receive at least six votes. 
5. Before the candidate can take his seat in the Society, he 
must sign the following obligation to these laws, and to such other 
regulations as may be determined on by the Lecturing Members ; 
and he must pay to the Treasurers one guinea, and subsequently 
one guinea at the beginning of every session, as his annual sub- 
scription. 
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