Peers of the Realm or Lords of Parliament are, on their being proposed, immediately balloted for; and the name, with the addition and place of abode, of every other person proposing to become a Member, is to be delivered to the Secretary, who is to read the same, and properly insert the name in a List, which is to be hung up in the SOCIETY's room until the next Meeting; at which time such person shall be balloted for; and, if two thirds of the Members, then voting, ballot in his favour, he shall be deemed a perpetual Member, upon payment of Twenty Guineas at one payment; or a subscribing Member, upon payment of any sum not less than Two Guineas annually.

Every Member is entitled to vote and be concerned in all the transactions of the SOCIETY, and to attend and vote at the several Committees. He has also the privilege of recommending two persons as Auditors, at the weekly Meeting of the SOCIETY; and, by addressing a note to the Housekeeper, of introducing his friends to examine the various Models, Machines, and Productions, in different branches of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, for which Rewards have been bestowed; and to inspect the magnificent series of moral and historical Paintings so happily contrived and completed

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completed by JAMES BARRY, Esq. which, with some excellent Busts and Statues, decorate the Great Room. He has likewise the use of a valuable Library; and is entitled to the annual Volume of the SOCIETY'S Transactions.

The time appointed for admission to the Paintings or Models, is from ten to two o'clock, Sundays and Wednesdays excepted.

Premiums

Premiums in Agriculture.

[The Public are requested to take notice that the Society abide by the Premiums offered in the 18th volume of their Transactions, for the setting of Acorns, and planting of Timber-Trees, although such Premiums are not here reprinted.]

Class 1. FOREST-TREES. To the person who shall have inclosed and planted, or set, the greatest number of acres (not less than ten) of land that is incapable of being ploughed, such as the borders of rivers, the sides of precipices, and any land that has too many rocks, or that is not calculated to repay the expence of tillage, owing to the stiffness or poverty of the soil, the surface being too hilly, mountainous, or otherwise unfit for tillage, with the best sorts of Forest-Trees, namely, Oak, Spanish chesnuts, Ash, Elm, Beech, Alder, Willow, Larch, Spruce and Silver Fir, with or without screens of Scotch Fir, adapted to the soil, and intended for timber trees, between the 1st of October, 1801, and the 1st of April, 1802, the GOLD MEDAL.

2. For the second greatest quantity of land, not less than seven acres, the SILVER MEDAL, or TWENTY GUINEAS.

3. For the third greatest quantity of land, not less than five acres, the SILVER MEDAL.

A particular ACCOUNT of the methods used in making and managing the plantations, the nature of the soil, the probable number of each sort of plants, together with

proper CERTIFICATES that they were in a healthy and thriving state two years at least after making the plantation, to be delivered to the Society on or before the first Tuesday in November, 1805.

4, 5, 6. The same premiums are extended one year farther.

CERTIFICATES to be produced on or before the first Tuesday in November, 1806.

7. ASCERTAINING THE BEST METHOD OF RAISING OAKS. To the person who shall ascertain in the best manner, by actual experiments, the comparative merits of the different modes of raising Oaks for timber, either from acorns set on land of the foregoing description properly dug or tilled, from acorns set by the spade or dibble, without digging or tillage, either on a smooth surface, or among bushes, fern, or other cover; or from young plants previously raised in nurseries, and transplanted; regard being had to the expence, growth, and other respective advantages of the several methods; the GOLD MEDAL.

The ACCOUNTS, and proper CERTIFICATES that not less than one acre has been cultivated in each mode, to be produced to the Society on or before the first Tuesday in November, 1802.

8. The same premium is extended one year farther. The ACCOUNTS and CERTIFICATES to be produced on or before the first Tuesday in November, 1803.

9. OSIERS.

9. OSIERS. To the person who shall have planted, between the 1st of October, 1801, and the 1st of May, 1802, the greatest quantity of land, not less than five acres, with those kinds of Willows, commonly known by the names of Osier, Spaniard, New-kind, or French, fit for the purpose of basket-makers, not fewer than twelve thousand plants on each acre; the GOLD MEDAL, OF THIRTY GUINEAS.

10. For the second greatest quantity of land, not less than three acres, the SILVER MEDAL, or TEN GUI

NEAS.

CERTIFICATES of the planting, and that the plants were in a thriving state five months at least after the planting, to be produced to the Society on or before the last Tuesday in November, 1802.

11. The same premiums are extended one year farther. CERTIFICATES to be produced on or before the last Tuesday in November, 1803.

** The Candidates for planting all kinds of trees are to produce certificates that the respective plantations are properly fenced and secured, and particularly to state the condition of the plants at the time of signing such certificates. Any information which the Candidates for the foregoing premiums may choose to communicate, relative to the methods made use of in forming the plantations, or promoting the growth of the several trees, or any other observations that may have occurred on the subject, will be thankfully received.

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