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LAWS.

I. That the Ordinary Members only shall be invested with the privilege of voting and electing Members; and that the whole expences of the Society shall devolve upon them.

II. That Gentlemen residing at a distance from Manchester shall be eligible into this Society, under the title of Honorary Members; provided no one be recommended who has not distinguished himself by his literary or philosophical publications.

III. That Gentlemen at a distance, who have favoured the Society with important communications, or from whom such contributions may be expected, shall be eligible, under the title of Corresponding Members.

IV. That every Candidate for admission into the Society, whether as an Ordinary, Honorary, or Corresponding Member, shall be proposed by at least three Ordinary Members, who shall sign a certificate of his being, from their knowledge of him, of his character, or of his writings, a fit person to be admitted into it; which certificate shall be read at not fewer than two successive meetings of the Society, previous to the evening of election.

V. That no election shall be made, either of Ordinary, Honorary, or Corresponding Members, except at the Quar

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