578 STATUTES OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



RUMFORD PREMIUM. 



In conformity with the terms of the gift of Benjamin, Count Rumford, 

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

 and with a decree of the Supreme Judicial Court for carrying into effect 

 tl)e general charitable intent and purpose of Count Rumford, as ex- 

 pressed 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 a 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 promote 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. 



