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STANDING VOTES. 



1. Communications of which notice has been given to the 

 Secretary shall take precedence of those not so notified. 



2. Resident Fellows who have paid all fees and dues charge- 

 able to thera 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 Acad- 

 emy who desire to receive them. 



3. Tlie 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. One hundred extra copies of each paper accepted for 

 the Memoirs of the Academy shall be separately printed, of 

 which fift}^ 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 as- 

 signed, 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 encourage the making of discoveries and im- 

 provements which may merit the Rumford Premium. 



