Hi General Conditions. 



each claimant thinks fit, such claimant sending with it a paper sealed up, having on the outside a 

 corresponding mark, and, on the inside, the claimant's name and address ; and all candidates aie 

 to take notice, that no claim for a premium will be attended to, unless the conditions of the ad- 

 vertisement arc fully complied with. 



No papcis shall be opened, but such as shall gain premiums, unless where it appears to the 

 Society absolutely necessary forthe determination of the claim; all the rest shall be returned un- 

 opened with the matter:, to which they belong, if inquired after by the mark, within two years ; 

 after which time, if not demanded, they 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 So- 

 ciety ; and, where a premium or bounty is given for any machine, a perfect model thereof shall 

 be given to rhc Society. 



All the premiums of this Society are designed for Great Britain and Ireland, unless expressly 

 mentioned to the contrary. , 



The claims shall be determined as soon as possible after the delivery of the specimens. 



No person shrill 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 disinge- 

 nuous 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 So- 

 ciety until 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 cand dates are, 

 in a'l 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 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, un- 

 less summoned by the committee. 



AT. 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 extemive 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 & Office } in the sldel- 

 phi, London. 



The models required by the Society should be upon the scale of one inch to a foot. The Win- 

 chester 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 mean 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 fully clear y explicit) jit 

 for publication) and rather in the form of Essays than of Letters. 



*** To persons 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 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. 



