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Section 4. Any branch of these Departments may be constituted a 

 Section; and any section or group of sections maj' be expanded into a 

 full Department, whenever such expansion shall be deemed important. 



Section 5. Any existing society or institution may be constituted a 

 Department, on terms approved by two-thirds of the voting members 

 present at two successive regular meetings of the Academy. 



SPECIAL OBJECTS OP THE DEPARTMENTS. 



Section 6. The specific objects of the Department of Sciences shall be: 



1. General Scientific Research. 



2. A progressive and thorough Scientific Survey of the State, under 

 the direction of the Oflicers of the Academy. 



3. Tlie formation of a Scientific Museum. 



4. The Ditt'usion of Knowledge by the publication of Original Con- 

 tributions to Science. 



The objects of the Department of the Arts shall be: 



1. The Advancement of the Useful Arts, through the Applications of 

 Science and the Encouragement of Original Invention. 



2. The Encouragement of the Fine Arts and the Improvement of 

 the Public Taste, by means of Honors and Prizes awarded to Works 

 of Superior Merit, by Original Contributions to Art, and the Formation 

 of an Art Museum. 



The objects of the Department of Letters, shall be: 



1. The Encouragement of Philological and Historical Research. 



2. The Improvement ot tlie Englisii Language. 



3. The Collection and Preservation of Historic Records. 



4. The Formation of a General Library. 



membership. 



Section 7. The Academy shall embrace four classes of governing 

 members who shall be admitted by vote of the Academy, in the manner 

 to be prescribed in the By-Laws: 



1st. Annual Members, who shall pay an initiation fee of five dollars, 

 and thereafter an annual fee of two dollars. 



2d. Members lor Life, who shall pay a fee of one hundred dollars. 



3d. Patrons, whose contributions shall not be less than five hundred 

 dollars. 



4th. Founders, whose contributions shall not be less than the sum of 

 one thousand dollars. 



Provision may also be made for the election of Honorar}- and Corre- 

 sponding Members, as may be directed in the By-Laws of the Academy. 



management. 



Section 8. The management of the Academy shall be entrusted to a 

 General Council ; the immediate control of each Department to a De- 

 partment Council. The General Council shall consist of the officers of 

 the Academy, the officers of the Departments, the Governor and Lieuten- 

 ant-Governor, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and the Presi- 

 dent of the State University, the President and Secretary of the State 

 Agricultural Society, the President and Secretary of tlie State Historical 

 Society, Counsellors e.v-oJficils, and three Counsellors to be elected for 

 each Department. The Dep:irtniental Councils shall consist of the Presi- 

 dent and Secretary of the Academy, the ofiicers of the Department, and 

 three Counsellors, to be chosen by the Department. 



