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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. Associate Fellows, Foreign Honorary Members, and Resident 

 Fellows, who have paid all fees and does chargeable to them, are en- 

 titled 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 of the date of publication. Exceptions to this rule 

 may be made in special cases by vote of the Academy. 



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 complete their sets. 



4. Two hundred extra copies of each paper accepted for publication 

 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 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 improvements which may merit the Rum- 

 ford Premium ; and the approval of a bill incurred for such purposes 

 by the Chairman shall be accepted by the Treasurer as proof that such 

 certificate has been given. 



9. A meeting for receiving and discussing scientific communications 

 may be held on the second Wednesday of each month not appointed for 

 stated meetings, excepting July, August, and September. 



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