SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS WHICH RECEIVE THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland FOR 1904. American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass., U. S. A. Antiquary (Editor of), 62, Paternoster-row, London, E.C. Architect, The (Editor of), Imperial Buildings, Ludgate Hill, London, W.C. Architects of Ireland: The Secretary, Royal Institute of, 20, Lincoln-place, Dublin. Belfast Naturalists' Field Club: The Museum, Belfast. Bristol and Gloucester Archæological Society: Rev. William Bazeley, M.A., Librarian, The Society's Library, Eastgate, Gloucester. British Archæological Association: Hon. Secretary, 32, Sackville-street, Piccadilly, London, W. Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Archæological Society: Rev. C. H. Evelyn White, F.S.A., Hon. Secretary, Rampton Rectory, Cambridge. Cambridge Antiquarian Society: J. E. Foster, Secretary, 10, Trinity-street, Cambridge. Cambrian Archæological Association : c/o the Rev. Canon Trevor Owen, M.A., F.S.A., Bodelwyddan Vicarage, Rhuddlan, R.S.O., N. Wales. Chester and North Wales Archæological and Historic Society: John Hewitt, Hon. Librarian, Grosvenor Museum, Chester. Cork Historical and Archæological Society: Hon. Secretary, care of Messrs. Guy & Co., 70, Patrick-street, Cork, Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club: Captain Elwes, Bossington, Bournemouth. Folk Lore (Editor of), 270, Strand, London, W.C. Galway Archæological and Historical Society: The Secretaries, Queen's College, Galway. Glasgow Archæological Society: W. G. Black, Secretary, 88, West Regent-street, Glasgow. Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire: The Secretary, Royal Institution, Colquitt-street, Liverpool. His Majesty's Private Library: The Librarian, Buckingham Palace, London. Institution of Civil Engineers of Ireland: Hon. Secretary, 35, Dawson-street, Dublin. Irish Builder, Editor of: R. M. Butler, Esq., Dawson Chambers, Dawson-street, Dublin. Kent Archæological Society: The Hon. Secretary, Maidstone, Kent. Kildare (County) Archæological Society: c/o Sir Arthur Vicars, Ulster's Office, The Castle, Dublin. Louth (County) Archæological Society. National Library of Ireland, Kildare-street, Dublin. Numismatic Society: The Secretaries, 22, Albemarle-street, London, W. Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia: Hall of the Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U. S. A. Palestine Exploration Fund (Secretary of), 38, Conduit-street, London, W. Revue de Faculté de Midi, Bordeaux. Royal Institute of British Architects: The Librarian, 9, Conduit-street, Hanoversquare, London, W. Royal Institution of Cornwall: The Hon. Secretary, Museum, Truro, Cornwall. Royal Irish Academy: 19, Dawson-street, Dublin. Royal Archæological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland: A. H. Lyell, Esq., F.S.A., Hon. Secretary, 20, Hanover-square, London, W. Société d'Archéologie de Bruxelles: 11, Rue Ravenstein, Bruxelles. Société des Bollandistes, 14, Rue des Ursulines, Bruxelles. Société Royale des Antiquaires du Nord: Messrs. Williams and Norgate, 14, Henrietta-street, Covent Garden, London. Society of Antiquaries of London: W. H. St. John Hope, M.A., Assistant Secretary, Burlington House, London, W. Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland: Joseph Anderson, Esq., LL.D., National Museum of Antiquities, Queen-street, Edinburgh. Society of Architects, Staple Inn Buildings, South Holborn, London, W. Society of Biblical Archæology: W. C. L. Nash, Secretary, 37, Great Russellstreet, Bloomsbury, London, W.C. Smithsonian Institution: Washington, D. C., U.S.A., c/o Wm. Wesley, 28, Essexstreet, Strand, London. Somersetshire Archæological and Natural History Society: William Bidgood, Taunton Castle, Taunton. Stockholm, Academy of Antiquities. Suffolk Institute of Archæology. The Librarian, Athenæum, Bury St. Edmunds. Surrey Archæological Society: Hon. Secretaries, Castle Arch, Guildford. Sussex Archæological Society: Care of Hon. Librarian, The Castle, Lewes, Sussex. The Copyright Office, British Museum, London. The Thoresby Society, 10, Park-streat, Leeds. The Library, Trinity College, Dublin (5 & 6 Vict. c. 45). The University Library, Cambridge (5 & 6 Vict. c. 45). The Bodleian Library, Oxford (5 & 6 Vict. c. 45). Waterford and South-East of Ireland Archæological Society: Honorary Secretary, Waterford. Wiltshire Archæological and Natural History Society: The Secretary, Devizes. Yorkshire Archæological Society: E. K. Clark, Esq., Hon. Librarian, 10, Parkstreet, Leeds. GENERAL RULES OF THE Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. (As Revised at the Annual Meeting, 1898.) OBJECTS. 1. The Society is instituted to preserve, examine, and illustrate all Ancient Monuments and Memorials of the Arts, Manners, and Customs of the past, as connected with the Antiquities, Language, and Literature of Ireland. CONSTITUTION, 2. The Society shall consist of FELLOWS, MEMBERS, ASSOCIATES, and HONORARY FELLOWS. 3. FELLOWS shall be elected at a General Meeting of the Society, each name having been previously submitted to and approved of by the Council, with the name of a Fellow or Member as proposer. Each Fellow shall pay an Entrance Fee of £2, and an Annual Subscription of £1, or a Life Composition of £14, which includes the Entrance Fee of £2. 4. MEMBERS shall be similarly elected, on being proposed by a Fellow or Member, and shall pay an Entrance Fee of 10s. and an Annual Subscription of 10s., or a Life Composition of £7, which shall include the Entrance Fee of 10s, 5. ASSOCIATES may be elected by the Council, on being proposed by a Fellow or Member, for any single Meeting or Excursion of the Society at a Subscription to be fixed by the Council; but they shall not vote, or be entitled to any privileges of the Society except admission to such Meeting or Excursion. 6. All Fees due on joining the Society must be paid either before or within two months from the date of Election. Fellows and Members failing to pay shall be reported at the next General Meeting after the expiration of this period. 7. Any Fellow who has paid his full Annual Subscription of £1 for ten consecutive years may become a LIFE FELLOW on payment of a sum of £8. 8. Any Member who has paid his full Annual Subscription of 10s. for ten consecutive years may become a LIFE MEMBER on payment of £5. 9. Any Member who has paid his Life Composition, on being advanced to the rank of Fellow, may compound by paying a sum of £7, which sum includes the Entrance Fee for Fellowship. 10. A Member paying an Annual Subscription of 10s., on being elected to Fellowship, shall pay an admission Fee of 30s., instead of the Entrance Fee of £2 provided for in Rule 3. 11. All Subscriptions shall be payable in advance on 1st day of January in each year, or on election. The Subscriptions of Fellows and Members elected at the last Meeting of any year may be placed to their credit for the following year. A List of all Fellows and Members whose Subscriptions are two years in arrear shall be read out at the Annual General Meeting, and published in the Quarterly Journal of the Society. 12. Fellows shall be entitled to receive the Journal, and all extra publications of the Society. Members shall be entitled to receive the Journal, and may obtain the extra publications on payment of the price fixed by the Council. 13. Fellows and Members whose Subscriptions for the year have not been paid are not entitled to the Journal; and any Fellow or Member whose Subscription for the current year remains unpaid, and who receives and retains the Journal, shall be held liable for the payment of the full published price of 3s. for each quarterly part. 14. Fellows and Members whose Subscriptions for the current year have been paid shall alone have the right of voting at all General Meetings of the Society. Any such Fellow present at a General Meeting can call for a vote by orders, and, in that case, no resolution can be passed unless by a majority of both the Fellows and of the Members present and voting. Honorary Fellows have not the right of voting, and are not eligible for any of the Offices mentioned in Rules 15 and 16, nor can they be elected Members of Council. In cases where a ballot is called for, no Candidate for Fellowship or Membership can be admitted unless by the votes of two-thirds of the Fellows and Members present, and voting. OFFICE-BEARERS AND COUNCIL. 15. The Officers of the Society, who must be Fellows, shall consist of a Patron-in-Chief, Patrons, President, four Vice-Presidents for each Province, a General Secretary, and a Treasurer. All Lieutenants of Counties to be ex-officio Patrons on election as Fellows. 16. The President and Vice-Presidents shall be elected at the Annual General Meeting in each year. The nominations for these offices must be received at the Rooms of the Society on or before the first day of December preceding the Annual General Meeting, addressed to the General Secretary, and endorsed "Nomination of Officers.” Each Nomination Paper must be signed by seven or more Fellows or Members as proposers; and in the case of a Candidate who has not held such office before, his Nomination Paper must be accompanied by an intimation under his hand that he will serve in that office if elected. In case the number of persons so nominated shall exceed the number of vacancies, a printed Balloting Paper, containing the names of all such Candidates arranged in alphabetical order, distinguishing those recommended by the Council, shall be sent by post to every Fellow and Member whose name is on the Roll of the Society, directed to the address entered on the Roll, at least one week before the day of election. Each person voting shall mark with an asterisk the name of each Candidate for whom he, or she, votes. The Voter shall then return the Balloting Paper to the General Secretary, on or before the day preceding the Election, in an addressed envelope, which will be supplied; sealed, and marked Balloting Paper, and signed outside with the name of the Voter: the Balloting Paper itself must not be signed. In case a Voter signs the Balloting Paper, or votes for more Candidates than the number specified thereon, such vote shall be void. The Balloting Papers shall be scrutinized on the day of election by at least two Scrutineers appointed by the Council, who shall report the result at the General Meeting held on the evening of that day. The Treasurer shall furnish the Scrutineers with a List of the Fellows and Members whose Subscriptions have been paid up to the day preceding the Election, and who are consequently qualified to vote at such Election. Those Candidates who obtain the greatest number of votes shall be declared elected, subject to the provisions of Rule 17, provided that, when there appears an equality of votes for two or more Candidates, the Candidate whose name is longest on the books of the Society, shall be declared elected. The President shall be elected for a term of three years, and the same person shall not be elected for two consecutive periods. The four senior or longest elected VicePresidents, one in each province, shall retire each year by rotation, and shall not be eligible for re-election at the General Meeting at which they retire. The Council may submit to the Annual General Meeting the name of a Fellow, Hon. Fellow, or Member, who will act as Hon. President, and the Meeting may adopt the name submitted, or may elect another by a majority of votes, such Hon. President to hold office for one year, and shall not be elected for two consecutive periods. 17. The management of the business of the Society shall be entrusted to a Council of Twelve, eight of whom at least must be Fellows (exclusive of the President, VicePresidents, Honorary General Secretary, and Treasurer, who shall be ex-officio Members of the Council). The Council shall meet on the last Tuesday of each month, or on such other days as they may deem necessary. Four Members of Council shall form a quorum. The three senior or longest elected Members of the Council shall retire each year by rotation, and shall not be eligible for re-election at the Annual General Meeting at which they retire. In case of a vacancy occurring for a Member of Council during the year, the Council shall at its next Meeting co-opt a Fellow or Member, to retire by rotation. A Member of Council who has failed to attend onethird of the ordinary Meetings of the Council during the year shall forfeit his seat at the next Annual General Meeting. The vacancies caused by the retirement by rotation of Members of Council shall be filled up in the manner prescribed for the election of President and Vice-Presidents in Rule 16. 18. The Council may appoint Honorary Provincial Secretaries for each Province, and Honorary Local Secretaries throughout the country, whose duties shall be defined by the Council, and they shall report to the Honorary General Secretary, at least once a year, on all Antiquarian Remains discovered in their districts, investigate Local History and Tradition, and give notice of all injury inflicted, or likely to be inflicted, on Monuments of Antiquity or Ancient Memorials of the Dead, in order that the influence of the Society may be exerted to restore or preserve them. 19. The Council may appoint Committees to take charge of particular departments of business, and shall report to the Annual General Meeting the state of the Society's Funds, and other matters which may have come before them during the preceding year. They may appoint an Hon. Curator of the Museum, and draw up such rules for its management as they may think fit. The Hon. General Secretary may, with the approval of the Council, appoint a paid Assistant Secretary; the salary to be determined by the Council. 20. The Treasurer's Accounts shall be audited by two Auditors, to be elected at the Annual General Meeting in each year, who shall present their Report at a subsequent General Meeting of the Society. 21. All property of the Society shall be vested in the Council, and shall be disposed of as they shall direct. The Museum of Antiquities cannot be disposed of without the sanction of the Society being first obtained. D |