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STANDING VOTES. 



1. Communications of which notice has been given to the Secre- 

 tary shall take precedence of those not so notified. 



2. Resident Fellows who have paid all fees and dues chargeable to 

 them are entitled to receive one copy of each volume or article printed 

 by the Academy, on application to the Librarian personally or by 

 written order, within two years from the date of publication. And 

 the current issues of the Proceedings shall be supplied, when ready 

 for publication, free of charge to all the Fellows and Members of the 

 Academy who desire to receive them. 



3. The Committee of Publication shall fix from time to time the 

 price at which the publications of the Academy may be sold. But 

 members may be supplied at half this price with volumes which they 

 are not entitled to receive free, and which are needed to complete 

 their sets. 



4. Two hundred extra copies of each paper accepted for publica- 

 tion in the Memoirs or Proceedings of the Academy shall be placed 

 at the disposal of the author, free of charge. 



5. Resident Fellows may borrow and have out from the Library 

 six volumes at any one time, and may retain the same for three 

 mouths, and no longer. 



6. Upon special application, and for adequate reasons assigned, the 

 Librarian may permit a larger number of volumes, not exceeding 

 twelve, to be drawn from the Library for a limited period. 



7. Works published in numbers, when unbound, shall not be 

 taken from the Hall of the Academy, except by special leave of the 

 Librarian. 



8. Books, publications, or apparatus shall be procured from the 

 income of the Rumford Fund only on the certificate of the Rumford 

 Committee, that they, in their opinion, will best facilitate and encour- 

 age the making of discoveries and improvements which may merit the 

 Rumford Premium. 



9. The annual meeting and the other stated meetings shall be 

 holden at half-past seven o'clock, P. M. 



10. A meeting for receiving and discussing scientific communica- 

 tions shall be held on the second Wednesday of each month not ap- 

 pointed for stated meetings, excepting July, August, and September. 



