shall be publicly burnt, unopened, at some meeting of the Society. All Models of Machines, which obtain Premiums or Bounties, shall be the property of the Society; and where a Premium or Bounty is given for any Machine, a perfect Model thereof shall be given to the Society. All the Premiums of this Society are designed for Great Britain or Ireland, unless expressly mentioned to the contrary. The Claims shall be determined as soon as possible after the delivery of the specimen. No person shall receive any Premium, Bounty, or Encouragement from the Society, for any matter for which he has obtained, or purposes to obtain, a patent. A Candidate for a Premium, or a person applying for a Bounty, being detected in any disingenuous method to impose on the Society, shall forfeit such Bounty, and be deemed incapable of obtaining any for the future. The Performances which each year obtain Premiums or Bounties are to remain with the Society till after the public distribution of Rewards. No Member of this Society shall be a Candidate for, or entitled to receive, any Premium, Bounty, or Reward, whatsoever, except the Honorary Medal of the Society. The Candidates are, in all cases, expected to furnish a particular Account of the subject of their Claims; and, where Certificates are required to be produced in claim of Premiums, they should be expressed, as nearly as possible, in the words of the respective advertisements, and be signed by persons who have a positive knowledge of the facts stated. Where Premiums or Bounties are obtained in consequence of specimens produced, the Society mean to retain such part part of those specimens as they may judge necessary, making a reasonable allowance for the same. No Candidates shall be present at any meetings of the Society or Committees, or admitted at the Society's Rooms, after they have delivered in their Claims, until such Claims are adjudged, unless summoned by the Committee. N. B. The Society farther invite the communications of scientific and practical Men upon any of the subjects for which Premiums are offered, although their experiments may have been conducted upon a smaller scale than the terms of each require, as they may afford ground for more extensive application, and thus materially forward the views of the Society, and contribute to the advantage of the Public. Such communications to be made by letter addressed to the Society, and directed to Mr. CHARLES TAYLOR, the Secretary, at the Society's Office, in the Adelphi, London. The Models required by the Society should be upon the scale of one inch to a foot. The Winchester bushel is the measure referred to for grain; and, as the acres of different districts vary in extent, it is necessary to observe, that the Society means Statute Acres, of five and a half yards to the rod or pole, when acres are mentioned in their list of premiums; and they request that all communications to them may be made agreeably thereto. The Society desire that the Papers on different subjects sent to them may be full, clear, explicit, fit for publication, and rather in the form of Essays than of Letters. In case any person should be inclined to leave a sum of money to this Society, by will, the following form is offered for that purpose: Item. I give and bequeath to A. B. and C. D. the sum of upon condition and to the intent that they, or one of them, do pay the same to the Collector for the time being of a Society in London, who now call themselves the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce; which said sum of I will and desire may be paid out of my personal estate, and applied towards the carrying on the laudable designs of the Society. By Order of the Society, CHARLES TAYLOR, Secretary. The Lists of the Premiums offered by the Society are published annually in the month of June, and may be had GRATIS, either on sheets or in pamphlets, by application to the Register, at the Society's House, in JohnStreet, Adelphi, London. |