is before them, whether in debate, or for determination, unless called in. Which Rules, all Members being such Candidates, are strictly to observe, under penalty of forfeiting their title to such Medal, notwithstanding any determination of the Society in their favour.

VI. If any Member shall be afterwards found to have transgressed the Rules mentioned in the preceding Resolutions, by the means of a borrowed or fictitious name, such Member shall be expelled the Society.

VII. No Member, who is the father, son, or master of a Candidate for a Premium, Bounty, or Reward, nor any person anywise lucratively interested in such an event, shall be of the Committee to which such matter is referred; nor present in the Society when it is under consideration, unless called in, under penalty of excluding such child, father, scholar, apprentice, or servant, from all title to any such Premium, Bounty, or Reward, notwithstanding a determination of the Society in their favour.

VIII. A Candidate for a Premium, or person applying for a Bounty, being detected in any disingenuous methods to impose on the Society, shall forfeit any such Premium or Bounty, and be deemed incapable of obtaining any for the

future.

IX. No Candidate who is not a Member, shall be present at any of the Meetings of the Society or Committees, or admitted at the Society's

Rooms, after they have delivered in their claims, till such claims are adjudged, unless summoned by the Committee, under forfeiture of the Premium or Bounty for which they are candidates.

X. No Machine, or Model of a Machine shall be admitted to claim a Premium, unless the whole and every part thereof, shall be delivered into the Society's office at or before the time appointed by the Society. And if any Candidate shall secretly make addition to, or alteration in his Machine or Model, otherwise than by repairing and putting the several parts together, after it is lodged with the Society, he shall, on discovery, be deemed incapable of receiving any Premium.

XI. The Society shall, whenever they think proper, desire the assistance of such gentlemen, manufacturers, or others, though not Members of it, as shall be deemed best able to judge of, and discover the truth and value of any matter or thing for which a Premium has been claimed.

XII. No Medal, or sum of Money, shall be given as a Bounty or Reward for any thing not. mentioned in the List of Premiums at any time, unless fifteen Members are present; and the Majority to bestow such Medal or sum of Money, shall consist of two-thirds, at least, of the Members then present: the same to be confirmed by Ballot.

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jected by the Society, no motion shall be made for giving to the Candidate, in lieu of such Premium, any Bounty of equal honour or value with the Premium offered.

XIV. Every person who shall receive any Premium or Bounty from the Society, shall relinquish all pretensions to a patent for any matter for which he has obtained such Premium or Bounty. No Model or Machine for which a Patent has been obtained, or is proposed to be obtained, shall be admitted into the Repository of the Society.

XV. No Member who has obtained a Patent for any article similar to such as may be produced to the Society, shall be allowed to vote either in the Committee or Society on that subject.

XVI. If any Reward be conditionally voted by the Society, and the imposed conditions be not completed within one year from the time of such vote, the reward is to be considered as void, unless further time shall be granted by the Society for complying with the said conditions, in consequence of an application in writing made by or from the said claimant.

XVII. The several Candidates and Claimants to whom the Society shall adjudge Premiums or Bounties are to attend at the Society's house in the Adelphi, or such other place as shall be appointed, on the last Tuesday in May of that Session, at eleven in the morning precisely, to receive the same; that day being appointed by

the Society for the distribution of their Rewards; and before that time no Premium or Bounty will be delivered, except to those who are about to leave the kingdom.

In cases where the Society may think fit to admit excuses for not attending in person, deputies may be substituted to receive the Rewards, provided such deputies are either Members of the Society, or superior officers thereof.

At the Annual Distribution of the Society's Rewards, no Member shall be at liberty to give tickets for the admission of more than two ladies and one gentleman, as auditors at the distribution of Premiums.

The tickets to be issued from the Secretary's office, and signed by the Member who gives them; and not more than one individual shall be permitted to attend as a visitor on that day for each order or ticket of admission.

XVIII. The Isis Medal shall be considered and called the lesser Medal of the Society.

SECT. XIII.

Resolutions.

I. THAT all Models of Machines, for which persons obtain Premiums or Bounties, shall become the property of the Society, and correct written descriptions be furnished with them; "]

and where Machines are rewarded, that complete models, or correct drawings, and proper written explanations, be delivered to the Society by the persons entitled to such Rewards.

II. That no Machine, Model, Painting, Drawing, or Papers, be returned to any Claimant or Candidate, without an order from the Vice-President in the Chair; or from one of the Chairmen of the Committee to whom such Machine, Model, Painting, Drawing, or Papers may have been referred.

III. All the written Accounts, for which any Premium is offered and given, or for which the Society have given a Bounty, shall be published; such accounts being first referred to a Committee to prepare them for publication.

IV. With the List of Premiums, an account of all the Medals, Premiums and Bounties, which have been given by the Society the preceding year, to whom and for what purposes, shall be printed annually.

V. In the List of the Members, after the name of each Member, his addition and place of abode are to be inserted.

VI. The Committee of Correspondence are at liberty from time to time, to refer such letters as they esteem proper to the respective Committees, without reporting them to the Society, in order to be referred to such Committee; except such as propose the granting any new Premium or Bounty.