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STANDING VOTES 



1. Communications of which notice has been given to either of the 

 Secretaries shall take preccflence of those not so notified. 



2. Fellows or Resident Associates may take from the Library six 

 volumes at any one time, and may retain them for three months, and 

 no longer. 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. 



3. Works published in numbers, when unbound, shall not be taken 

 from the Hall of the Academy without the leave of the Librarian. 



4. There may be chosen by the Academy, under such rules as the 

 Council may determine, one hundred Resident Associates. Not 

 more than forty Resident Associates shall be chosen in any one Class. 



Resident Associates shall be entitled to the same privileges as Fel- 

 lows, in the use of the Academy building, may attend meetings and 

 present papers, but they shall not have the right to vote. They shall 

 pay no Admission Fee, and their Annual Dues shall be the same as 

 those of Fellows residing within fifty miles of Boston. 



The Council and Committees of the Academy may ask one or more 

 Resident Associates to act with them in an advisory or assistant ca- 

 pacity, 



5. Communications offered for publication in the Proceedings or 

 Memoirs of the Academy shall not be accepted for publication before 

 the author shall have informed the Committee on Meetings of his 

 readiness, either himself or through some agent, to use such time as the 

 Committee may assign him at such meeting as may be convenient both 

 to him and to the Committee, for the purpose of presenting to the 

 Academy a general statement of the nature and significance of the 

 results contained in his communication. 



KUMFOED PEEMIUM 



In conformity with the terms of the gift of Sir Benjamin Thompson, 

 Count Rumford, of a certain Fund to the American Academy of Arts 

 and Sciences, and with a decree of the Supreme Judicial Court of 

 Massachusetts for carrying into effect the general charitable intent and 

 purpose of Count Rumford, as expressed in his letter of gift, the Acad- 

 emy is empowered to make from the income of the Rumford Fund, as 



