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 PREMIUMS offered by the Sqciet y, instituted at Londoner 

 the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, 

 for the Year 1802. 



TO THE PUBLIC. 



THE chief objects of the Society are to promote the Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce 

 of this kingdom, by giving rewards for all such useful Inventions, Discoveries and Im- 

 provements, (though not mentioned in this book,) as tend to that puipose ; and, in pursuance of 

 this plan, the Society have already expended near fifty thousand pounds, advanced by 

 voluntary subscriptions of their members, and legacies bequeathed. 



,The manner in which this money has been distributed may be seen by applying to the Secre- 

 tary or other ofhecis of the Society, at their house in the sldeiphi. The Register of the Pre- 

 miums and Bounties they have given will shew the very great advantages which the Public have 

 derived from this Institution. 



The meetings of the Society arc held every Wednesday, zX. seven o'clock, in the evening, from 

 the fourth Wednesday in October to the .first Wednesday in June. The several Committees meet 

 on other evenings in the week during the session. 



In order still farther to promote the laudable views of this Society, it may be necessary to 

 explain the mode by which its members continue to be elected. 



Each member has the privilege, at any weekly meeting of the Society, of proposing any 

 person who is desirous to become a member, provided such proposa} i-s signed by three mem- 

 bers of the Sojciety. 



Peers of the Realm or Lords of Parliament arc, on their being proposed, immediately bailotted 

 fpr ; and the name, with the addition and place of abode, of every other person proposing to be- 

 come a member, is to he 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 ballotted for; and, if two-thirds of the members, then voting, 

 ballot in his fayour, he shall be deemed a Jierjietual member, upon payment of Twenty Guineas at 

 ©ne 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 by James Barry, Esq. which, with some valuable busts and statues, decorate thp 

 Great Room. He has likewise the use of a valuable Library ; and is entitled to the annual Vo- 

 lume of the Society's Transactions. 



The time appointed for admission to the paintings or models, is from ten to 4 wo o'clock, Sun- 

 Jays and Wednesdays excepted. 



PREMIUMS IN AGRICULTURE. and silver fir> Avit h or without screens of Scotch 



THE public are requested to take notice that fir, adapted to the soil, and intended for timber 



the Society abide by the premiums offer- trees, between the 1st of October, 1801, and the 



ed in the ISth volume of their Transactions, for 1st of April, 1802, the gold medal, 



the setting ofacorns, and planting of timber-trees, 2. For the second greatest quantity of land, not 



although such premiums are not here reprinted. less than seven acres; the silver medal, or twenty 



Claps 1. Forest- trees. guineas. 



To the person who shall have inclosed and 3. For the third greatest quantity of land, not 



planted, or set, the greatest number of acres (not less than five acres, the silver medal. A partir 



less than ten) of land, that is incapable of being cular account of the methods used in making and 



ploughed, such as the borders of rivers, the sides managing the plantations, the nature of the soil, 



of precipices, and any land that has too many the probable number of each sort of plants, to- 



rocks, or that is not calculated to repay the ex- gether with proper certificates that they were in 



pence of tillage, owing to the stiffness or poverty a healthy and thriving state two years at least 



of the soil, the surface being too hilly, mountain- after making the plantation, to be delivered to 



ous, or otherwise unfit for tillage, with the best the Society on or before the first Tuesday iu 



sorts of forest-trees, namely, oak, Spanish ches- November, 1805. 



jnits, ash, elm, beech, alder] willow, larcK, spruce 4,5,6. The same premiums arc extended 



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