594 STATUTES OP THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



STANDING VOTES. 



1. Communications of which notice had 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 them arc 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. 

 Put members may be supplied at half this price with volu 

 which they are not entitled to receive free, and which arc needed 

 to complete their sets. 



4. Two hundred extra copies of each paper accepted for publi- 

 cation 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. 



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

 the Librarian may permit a larger number of volumes, not 

 ing 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 Rum- 

 ford Committee that they, in their opinion, will best facilil 

 ami encourage the making of discoveries and improvements which 

 may merit the Rumford Premium. 



'.' Tii- Annual Meeting and the other stated meetings shall be 

 holden at eight o'clock. 1'. M. 



In. .\ meeting for receiving and discussing scientific commu- 

 nications may be held on the second Wednesday of each month 



m.t appointed Med meeting . pting July, A and 



Septeml 



