SECT. X.

Election of Members.

I. No Person is to be proposed for a Member, unless recommended by three Members; and the name, place of abode, and addition of the person recommended, shall be delivered in, signed by the Proposers, which shall be read by the Secretary, who shall insert the name in a List of Candidates, to be hung up in the Society and anti-rooms, until the following ordinary Meeting of the Society, at which such persons shall be ballotted for, provided there be fourteen days between the Meetings: The names of the Proposers, together with the name and addition of the person to be balloted for, shall be put upon the ticket, placed on the box, during the time of such ballot. The Collector, having a sufficient number of balls, shall give one to each of the present balloting Members, and, if two-thirds of the Members then voting shall ballot in his favour, he shall be deemed a perpetual Member, upon payment of twenty Guineas at one payment; or a subscribing Member, upon payment of any sum, not less than two Guineas annually, (BB). Peers of the Realm, and Lords of Parliament, desirous of becoming Members of this Society, shall, on their being proposed at any Meeting of the Society, be immediately balloted

for.

Ladies are eligible as Members of this Society, are entitled to attend and vote in its Proceedings and Committees, and are alone entitled to vote by Proxy on Elections only, through the medium of some Gentleman who is ȧ Member, but such Member must produce a written authority from the lady for whom he votes as Proxy.

II. In Election of Members, a second Ballot shall be granted, if immediately demanded.

III. Every person, upon his Election, is to pay his Subscription Money, or one of the Members is at liberty to make the deposit, in his name, in case of absence.

IV. Every Member shall pay his Subscription Money in arrear within one month after he has been applied to by letter from the Collector for that purpose, according to the copy annexed, (C); and no person shall be entitled to debate or vote, at any Meeting or Committee, until his Subscription for the current year, and all arrears, are paid: And no person shall be entitled to be present at any Meeting, or Committee, whose Subscription shall be at any time for two full years in arrear: Yet as several, who have declined continuing their Subscriptions for a time, may be again desirous of becoming Members, but by the foregoing Rule and Order seem to be precluded until their arrears shall be discharged, it is hereby ordered, that any such person shall be capable of being re-elected a H

Member of the Society, in the same manner, and on the same terms, as if he had never been a Member before.

V. When any person is elected a Member, the Secretary shall immediately inform him thereof by a letter (D); and the Collector shall wait upon him, if in town, and carry a printed book of Rules and Orders, and the List of Premiums.

VI. The names of such persons as have not paid their first Subscription Money, are to be omitted in the List of Members.

VII. Foreigners, or Persons who do not reside in Great Britain, may be elected, by ballot, corresponding Members of this Society, without being subject to any annual payment: and shall be admitted to the Meetings and Committees of the Society during their residence here, provided such residence does not exceed three months at one time; but shall not be permitted to vote.

VIII. On Election of any person to be a corresponding Member of this Society, a letter shall be written by the Secretary, acquainting him therewith; and the Secretary, in such letter, shall enclose him an exact copy of the standing Rule and Order, "That no Member of "this Society shall hereafter be a Candidate for, or entitled to receive any Premium, Bounty, or Reward, except the Honorary Medals of the Society;" and also, that the Society request

their corresponding Members, as often as shall be convenient, to favour them with accounts of such useful discoveries or improvements in any of the Polite or Economical Arts, as may come to their knowledge.

SECT. XI.

Of Committees.

I THE Standing Committees for the year shall be declared, and the Members thereof shall be named by the Society, at eight o'clock, on the first Wednesday in April, and a General Committee of Election, to which the Chairmen and Members of the several Committees shall be especially summoned, shall meet on the Friday next ensuing (provided the same be not GoodFriday, but, in that case, the Committee shall be summoned for the Thursday preceding) to take into their consideration the choice of two Chairmen to each of the several Committees for the following year, and report their names to the Society, on the second Wednesday in April, as proper persons to serve as Chairmen in the respective Committees, under the Titles of which they shall be severally inserted, as follows:Committee of Accounts.

Correspondence and Papers,
Agriculture.

Committee of Chemistry, Dyeing, and Mine

ralogy.

Polite and Liberal Arts.

Manufactures.

Mechanics.

British Colonies and Trade.
Miscellaneous Matters.

And they are to report and recommend them to the Society as proper persons to be elected at their annual Election of Officers, to be held on the twenty-second day of the same month.

II. Nine Committee Minute Books are to be kept; one for each of the above-mentioned Committees.

III. Two Chairmen shall be elected by Ballot, for the Committee of Accounts, Committee for Miscellaneous Matters, Committee of Correspondence and Papers, and each Class of the Committee of Premiums severally; who shall preside for that year when present, in the order they are named; and in case neither of the said Chairmen should be present at their respective Committees, any other Member shall be appointed by the Committee, Chairman for the occasion.

IV. Committees shall not take up any matter, unless referred to them by the Society; and no decision on the merits of any Question referred to the Committee shall be made after eleven o'clock.