less than twenty Councillors; and the Treasurer or Treasureis and the Secretary or Secretaries if honorary. 5. The several persons who were elected to be the President, Vice-Presidents, and Members of the Council of the Statistical Society at the Annual Meeting held in the month of June, One thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, shall form the first Council of the Society, and shall continue in office until the first Election of officers is made under these presents as hereinafter provided. 6. General Meetings of the Fellows of the Society may be held from time to time, and at least one General Meeting shall be held in each year. Every General Meeting may be adjourned, subject to the provisions of the Bye Laws. The following business may be transacted by a General Meeting, viz.: (a.) The Election of the President, Vice-Presidents, Treasurer or Treasurers, Secretary or Secretaries, and other Members of the Council of the Society. (b.) The making, repeal, or amendment of Bye Laws. (c.) The passing of any proper resolution respecting the affairs of the Society. 7. Bye Laws of the Society may be made for the following purposes, and subject to the following conditions, viz. : (a.) For prescribing the qualification and condition of tenure of office of the President; the number, qualifications, functions, and conditions of tenure of office of the Vice-Presidents, Treasurers, Secretaries, and Members of Council, and Officers of the Society; for making regulations with respect to General Meetings and Meetings of the Council and proceedings thereat, and for the election of any persons to be Honorary Fellows or Associates of the Society, and defining their privileges (but such persons, if elected, shall not be Members of the Corporation), and for making regulations respecting the making, repeal and amendment of Bye Laws, and generally for the government of the Society and the management of its property and affairs. (b.) The first Bye Laws shall be made at the first; General Meeting to be held under these presents, and shall (amongst other things) prescribe the time for holding the first election of officers under these presents. 8. The General Meetings and adjourned General Meetings of the Society shall take place (subject to the rules or bye laws of the Society, and to any power of convening or demanding a Special General Meeting thereby given) at such times and places as may be fixed by the Council. 9. The existing rules of the Statistical Society, so far as not inconsistent with these presents, shall be in force as the Bye Laws of the Society until the first Bye Laws to be made under these presents shall come into operation. 10. Subject to these presents and the Bye Laws of the Society for the time being, the Council shall have the sole management of the income, funds, and property of the Society, and may manage and superintend all other affairs of the Society, and appoint and dismiss at their pleasure all salaried and other officers, attendants, and servants as they may think fit, and may do all such things as shall appear to them necessary or expedient for giving effect to the objects of the Society. 11. The Council shall once in every year present to a General Meeting a report of the proceedings of the Society, together with a statement of the receipts and expenditure, and of the financial position of the Society, and every Fellow of the Society may, at reasonable times to be fixed by the Council, examine the accounts of the Society. 12. The Council may, with the approval of a General Meeting, from time to time appoint fit persons to be Trustees of any part of the real or personal property of the Society, and may make or direct any transfer of such property so placed in trust necessary for the purposes of the trust, or may, at their discretion, take in the corporate name of the Society conveyances or transfers of any property capable of being held in that name. Provided that no sale, mortgage, incumbrance, or other disposition of any hereditaments belonging to the Society shall be made unless with the approval of a General Meeting. 13. No Rule, Bye Law, Resolution, or other proceeding shall be made or had by the Society, or any meeting thereof, or by the Council, contrary to the general scope or true intent and meaning of this Our Charter, or the laws or statutes of Our Realm, and anything done contrary to this present clause shall be void. En witness whereof We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patent. Witness Ourself, at Westminster, the thirty-first day of January, in the fiftieth year of Our Reign. By Warrant under the Cueen's Sign Manual, MUIR MACKENZIE. L. 8. L. BYE-LAWS. ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY. Index to Rules and Bye-Laws. 1. The Objects of the Society. 2. Society to consist of Fellows and Honorary Fellows. 3. Number of Fellows unlimited; Hon. Fellows not to exceed 70 4. Fellows-Candidates to be proposed by two or more Fellows. 5. Do. to be elected by Ballot. 6. 9. Do. on Admission may attach F.S.S. to their Names. 7. Honorary Fellows, Proposed by Council; Elected by Ballot. 8. Fellows, to pay an Annual Subscription or a Composition. Do. how disqualified. Written notice of withdrawal required. 10. Do. and Honorary Fellows, Mode of Expulsion of. 11. Trustees. Property of Society, may be vested in Three. 12. President, Council, and Officers, Number and Particulars of. 16. Committees, may be appointed by Council. 17. Auditors, Appointment and Duties of. 18. Meetings, Ordinary and General, when to be held. 19. Ordinary Meetings, Business of. Strangers may be introduced. 20. Annual General Meeting, Business of. 21. Special General Meetings may be called. 22 President, Duties of. To have a Casting Vote. 23. Treasurer, Duties of, subject to the Council. 24. Honorary Secretaries, Duties of. 25. Vice-Presidents, Powers of. 26. Council, Duties of, in Publishing Papers and Expending Funds. 27. Do. may frame Regulations not inconsistent with Bye-laws. Duties of, with reference to the Common Seal. Do. 28. No Dividend, Gift, Division, or Bonus in Money to be made to Fellows, except as hereinafter provided for. to publish a Journal of the Transactions of the Society, and may remunerate Editors and their Assistants. Discretion of, as to Right of Property reserved in all Communications received. E RULES AND BYE-LAWS OF THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY. Objects of the Society. 1. The objects of the Royal Statistical Society are to collect, arrange, digest and publish facts, illustrating the condition and prospects of society in its material, social and moral relations; these facts being for the most part arranged in tabular forms and in accordance with the principles of the numerical method. The Society collects new materials, condenses, arranges, and publishes those already existing, whether unpublished or published in diffuse and expensive forms in the English or in any foreign language, and promotes the discussion of legislative and other public measures from the statistical point of view. These discussions form portions of the published Transactions of the Society. Constitution of the Society. 2. The Society consists of Fellows and Honorary Fellows, elected in the manner hereinafter described. Number of Fellows and Honorary Fellows. 3. The number of Fellows is unlimited. Foreigners or British subjects of distinction residing ont of the United Kingdom may be admitted as Honorary Fellows, of whom the number shall not be more than seventy at any one time. Proposal of Fellows. 4. Every Candidate for admission as n Fellow of the Society shall be proposed by two or more Fellows, who shall certify from their personal knowledge of him or of his works, that he is a fit person to be admitted a Fellow of the Society. Every such certificate having been read and approved of at a Meeting of the Council, shall be suspended in the office of the Society until the following Ordinary Meeting, at which the vote shall be taken. Admission of Fellows. 6. Every Fellow elect is required to take the earliest opportunity of presenting himself for admission at an Ordinary Meeting of the Society. The manner of admission shall be thus: Immediately after the reading of the minutes, the Fellow elect, having first paid his subscription for the current year or his composition, shall sign the obligation contained in the Fellowshipbook, to the effect following: "We, who have underwritten our "names, do hereby undertake, each for "himself, that we will endeavour to "further the good of the Royal Statis"tical Society for improving Statistical Knowledge, and the ends for which the same has been founded; that we "will be present at the Meetings of the Society as often as conveniently we can, and that we will keep and fulfil "the Bye-laws and Orders of this 'Society: provided that whensoever 'any one of us shall make known, by "writing under his hand, to the Secre"taries for the time being, that he "desires to withdraw from the Society, "6 The shall be free thenceforward from "this obligation." Whereon the President, taking him by the hand, shall say,-"By the "authority, and in the name of the "Royal Statistical Society, I do admit you a Fellow thereof." 66 Upon their admission Fellows shall have the right of attaching to their names the letters F.S.S., but not in connection with any trading or business advertisement other than the publication of any book or literary notice. Admission of Honorary Fellows. 7. There shall be Two Meetings of the Society in the year, on such days as shall be hereafter fixed by the Council, at which Honorary Fellows may be elected. No Honorary Fellow can be recommended for election but by the Council. At any Meeting of the Council any Member thereof may propose a Foreigner or British subject of distinction residing out of the United Kingdom, delivering at the same time a written statement of the qualifications of, offices held by, and published works of, the person proposed; and ten days' notice at least shall be given to every Member of the Council, of the day on which the Council will vote by ballot on the question whether they will recommend to the Society the election of the person proposed. No such recommendation to the Society shall be adopted unless at least three-fourths of the votes are in favour thereof. Notice of the recommendation shall be given from the chair at the Meeting of the Society next preceding that at which the vote shall be taken thereon. No person shall be elected an Honorary Fellow unless sixteen Fellows vote and three-fourths of the Fellows voting be in his favour. The Council shall have power to elect as Honorary Fellows, the Presidents for the time being of the Statistical Societies of Dublin, Manchester, and Paris, and the President of any other Statistical Society at home or abroad. Payments by Fellows. 8. Every Fellow of the Society shall pay a yearly subscription of Two Guineas, or may at any time compound for his future yearly payments by paying at once the sum of Twenty Guineas,* unless the Annual Subscription or Composition Fee shall be remitted by the Council; provided that the number of Fellows whose Annual Subscription or Composition Fee shall have been thus remitted, do not exceed five at any one time. Defaulters.- Withdrawal of Fellows. advance on the 1st of January, and if any Fellow of the Society have not paid his subscription before the 1st of July, he shall be applied to in writing by the Secretaries, and if the same be not paid before the 1st of January of the second year, a written application shall again be made by the Secretaries, and the Fellow in arrear shall cease to receive the Society's publications, and shall not be entitled to any of the privileges of the Society until such arrears are paid; and if the subscription be not discharged before the 1st of February of the second year, the name of the Fellow thus in arrear shall be exhibited on a card suspended in the office of the Society; and if, at the next Annual General Meeting, the amount still remain unpaid, the defaulter shall, unless other. wise authorised by the Council, be announced to be no longer a Fellow of the Society, the reason for the same being at the same time assigned. No Fellow of the Society can withdraw his name from the Society's books, unless all arrears be paid; and no resignation will be deemed valid unless a written notice thereof be communicated to the Secre. taries. No Fellow shall be entitled to vote at any Meeting of the Society until he shall have paid his subscrip tion for the current year. Expulsion of Fellows. 10. If any Fellow of the Society, or any Honorary Fellow, shall so demean himself that it would be for the dishonour of the Society that he longer continue to be a Fellow or Honorary Fellow thereof, the Council shall take the matter into consideration; and if the majority of the Members of the Council present at some Meeting (of which and of the matter in hand such Fellow or Honorary Fellow, and every Member of the Council, shall have due notice) shall decide by ballot to recommend that such Fellow or Honorary Fellow be expelled from the Society, the President shall at its next Ordinary Meeting announce to the Society the recommendation of the Council, and at the following Meeting the question shall be decided by ballot, and if at least three-fourths of the 9. All yearly payments are due in Cheques should be made payable to "The Royal Statistical Society," and crossed "Messrs. "Drummond and Co." |