488 RUMPORD PREMIUM. 



RUMFORD PREMIUM. 



In conformity with the terms of the gift of Benjamin, Count Rum- 

 ford, granting a certain fund to the American Academy of Arts and 

 Sciences, and witli a decree of tlie Supreme Judicial Court for carry- 

 ing into effect the general charitable intent and purpose of Count 

 Rumford, as expressed in his letter of gift, the Academy is empowered 

 to make from the income of said fund, as it now exists, at any annual 

 meeting, an award of a gold and silver medal, being together of the 

 intrinsic value of three hundred dollars, as a premium to the author of 

 any important discovery or useful improvement in light or in heat, 

 which shall have been made and published by printing, or in any way 

 made known to the public, in any part of the continent of America, or 

 any of the American islands ; preference being always given to such 

 discoveries as shall, in the opinion of the Academy, tend most to pro- 

 mote the good of mankind ; and to add to such medals, as a further 

 premium for such discovery and improvement, if the Academy see fit 

 so to do, a sum of money not exceeding three hundred dollars. 



