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STANDING VOTES. 



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

 tary shall take precedence of those not so notified. 



2. Eesident 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 com- 

 plete 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 

 months, and no longer. 



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

 the Librarian may permit a larger number of volumes, not exceed- 

 ing twelve, to be drawn from the Libra^ 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 

 encourage 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 eight o'clock, P. M. 



10. A meeting for receiving and discussing scientific com- 

 munications may be held on the second Wednesday of each month 

 not appointed for stated meetings, excepting July, August, and 

 September. 



