ELECTION,  &e.,  OF  MEMBERS. 
Nomination. — Every  candidate  for  admission  into  the  Society  must  be 
proposed  by  a Member;  the  proposer  to  specify  in  writing  the  name,  rank, 
usual  place  of  residence,  and  post-town,  of  the  candidate,  either  at  a 
Council,  or  by  letter  to  the  Secretary,  Every  such  proposal  shall  be  read 
at  the  Council  at  which  such  proposal  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  such  letter  shall  have  been  received. 
Election. — At  the  next  Meeting  of  the  Council  the  election  shall  take 
Klace,  when  the  decision  of  the  Council  shall  be  taken  by  a show  of 
ands ; the  majority  of  the  Members  present  to  elect  or  reject.  The 
Secretary  shall  inform  Members  of  their  election  by  a letter,  in  such  form 
as  the  Council  may  from  time  to  time  direct. 
Payments.  I.  Annual. — The  subscription  of  a Governor  is  5/.  and  that 
of  a Member  1/.,  due  in  advance  on  the  1st  of  January  of  each  year,  and 
becoming  in  arrear  if  unpaid  by  the  1st  of  June.  Members  elected  in 
November  or  December  may  date  the  commencement  of  their  liabilities 
and  privileges  with  the  Society  from  the  1st  of  January  in  the  ensuing  year. 
2.  For  Life. — Governors  may  compound  for  subscription  dunng  future  life 
by  paying  at  once  the  sum  of  .VI/.,  and  Members  by  pa\  ing  10/.  No  Gover- 
nor or  Member  in  arrear  of  subscription  can  be  allowed  to  enter  into 
composition  for  life  until  such  arrears  have  been  paid. 
Pri cilryes. — Th e Journals  of  the  Society  for  the  year  during  which  their 
subscription  has  been  paid,  transmitted  by  post,  free  of  charge,  to  their 
address ; analyses  performed  at  a reduced  charge  by  the  consulting  chemist ; 
the  liberty  of  attending  all  weekly  Meetings  of  the  Council  and  Lectures 
delivered  before  the  Members  in  I.ondon,  and  of  consulting  the  books  in 
the  library  ; leave  to  report  the  outbreak  of  disease  amongst  live  stock, 
and  to  request  the  personal  attendance  of  the  Society's  Veterinary  Inspec- 
tor ; free  entry  of  stock,  and  priority  of  claim  for  dinner  and  lecture  tickets 
at  the  Country  Meetings  of  the  Society.  No  Member  in  arrear  of  his 
subscription  is  entitled  to  any  of  the  privileges  of  the  Society. 
Ltalnlities. — All  Members  belong  to  the  Society,  and  arc  bound  to  pay 
their  annual  subscriptions,  until  they  shall  withdraw  from  it  by  a notice  in 
writing  to  the  Secretary. 
Uruynation. — Members  can  only  withdraw  their  names  legally  from  the 
Society  by  a written  notice  to  the  Secretary,  nnd  the  payment  of  all  sub- 
scriptions due  from  them  at  the  date  of  such  notice. 
Erjnilsion. — Members  may  be  dismissed  from  the  Society  in  the  fol- 
lowing manner: — Any  ten  Members  of  the  Society  may  send,  in  writing, 
signed  by  their  names,  to  the  Council,  a request  that  any  Member  of  the 
Society  shall  be  dismissed  from  the  Society.  Such  request  shall  be  placed 
in  a conspicuous  part  of  the  Council-room,  and  a copy  thereof  transmitted 
by  the  post  to  the  Member  proposed  to  be  so  dismissed,  signed  by  the 
Secretary.  At  the  monthly  Meeting  of  the  Council  which  shall  take 
place  next  after  one  month  shall  hnve  elapsed  after  such  request  shall 
nave  been  placed  in  the  Council-room,  the  Council  shall  tnie  the  matter 
thereof  into  their  consideration  ; but  the  Council  shall  not  so  take  it  into 
consideration  unless  twelve  Members  of  the  Council  at  the  least  shall  be 
present.  If  this  number  is  not  present,  the  consideration  of  the  request 
shall  be  adjourned  to  the  next  monthly  Meeting  of  the  Council,  and  so  on 
till  a monthly  Meeting  shall  take  place  at  which  twelve  Members  are 
present.  If  the  Council  so  constituted  shall  unanimously  agree  to  the 
dismissal  of  such  Member,  he  shall  be  no  longera  Member  of  the  Society  ; 
but  if  they  do  not  unanimously  agree  to  his  dismissal,  their  decision  shitl 
be  considered  to  have  been  made  in  his  favour  : Provided  always,  that  his 
dismissal  shall  not  relieve  him  from  the  payment  of  any  debt  previously 
due  by  him  to  the  Society ; and  that,  if  a Life-Governor  or  Life-Member, 
he  shall  not  have  any  claim  to  any  portion  of  the  commutation  he  has  paid. 
