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may be to giving more, but I would suggest that thirty dollars 

 should be the limit." 



Rules for the administration of the Jessup Trust. 



1. Candidates for the honor of a place on the list of Jessup stu- 

 dents must be residents of the United States, of not less than 20 

 (twenty) nor more than 25 (twenty-five) years of age, and habit- 

 ually resident within fifty miles of the Academy. But, on the 

 recommendation of the Board of Curators, the Council may appoint 

 a candidate who is less than twenty years of age. 



2. The Board of Curators shall examine every candidate, and 

 ascertain his age and place of birth ; his moral and intellectual 

 character ; his worthiness in all respects of the honor of being 

 appointed a Jessup student in the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia, in order that he may devote his whole time and ener- 

 gies to the study of the natural sciences under the directions of the 

 curators of the Academy. 



3. Every candidate who, after examination, may be favorably 

 reported to the Council by the curators, may be appointed a Jessup 

 student on probation during one month, and if the curators report 

 that the probation has been satisfactory, the term will be extended 

 to two years, and may be continued for two additional years at the 

 discretion of the Council. 



4. A Jessup student shall receive from the Jessup fund toward 

 his support not more than twenty dollars a month, nor during more 

 than four years. 



5. No member of the Academy shall be a Jessup student, and no 

 Jessup student shall be eligible to membership in the Academy. 



6. Every Jessup student who has had the honor to satisfactorily 

 complete a four years course of study in the Academy shall receive 

 a certificate thereof, signed by the President and curators of the 

 Academy. 



7. Jessup students shall, in their studies and the occupation of 

 their time, conform to such rules as the curators may prescribe from 

 time to time. 



8. Written applications to be admitted to the benefit of the Jessup 



Fund will be received at any time and considered by the Board of 



Curators. 



The whole is submitted, 



Very respectfully, 



W. S. W. RUSCHENBERGER, 



Chairman of Committee on By-Latvs. 



