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the same time to contribute to the extension of useful sci- 

 ence and to the increase of our national resources. 



Somerset, Chairman, 

 17th May, 1804.. 



Plan of the proposed Collection of Minerals and Office of 



uissay. 



I. The collection of minerals and office of assay shall be 

 find remain under the same direction- and government as 

 tlie other parts of the Institution; subject only to such pri- 

 vileges (to be enjoyed by those proprietors or subscribers 

 who shall think fit to qualify themselves as patrons of the 

 .collection) as are hereinafter anentioned, or may be hereafter 

 conceded by the by-laws of the institution. 



II. Proprietors and subscribers contributing to the collec- 

 tion tool, or upwards, shall be hereditary patrons of the 

 collection, 



III. Proprietors and subscribers contributing 50l. or upr 

 wards, not amounting to lOui., shall be patrons for life. 



IV. Subscribers of lesser sums (when their united sub- 

 scriptions amount to sixty guineas or upwards) may, by 

 writing, appoint, of their own number, any one, being a 

 proprietor or a subscriber, a patron for life. 



V. The application of the subscriptions, in providing and 

 arranging the collection and establishing the office of as- 

 say, shall be under the direction of the patrons. 



VI. The collection shall be open at times to be fixed on 

 the part of the Institution for the proprietors aud subscri- 

 bers; and also for scientific men, of this or any other coun- 

 try, to be introduced or recommended by the patrons; each 

 patron having a power to introduce or recommend one such 

 person, each day, to the collection. 



VII. No person shall be capable of exercising his right 

 as a patron, except during such time as he shall continue 

 and be a proprietor or subscriber to the Institution, 



VIII. In case of the death of any of the patrons for 

 life, the surviving patrons may elect in his room a life pa- 

 tron, who shall have previously paid, or secured to be paid, 

 the sum of 50l. or upwards to the funds for the support 

 and increase of the collection ; which money shall be forth- 

 with applied accordingly, under the direction of the pa- 

 trons. 



IX. The patrons ahall make rules for the direction of 

 their mode of proceeding, and shall elect a chairman, de- 

 puty chairman, treasurer, and secretary, "and appoint com- 

 mittees 



