APPENDIX. 



CONSTITUTION OF THE COLUMBIAN INSTITUTE FOR THE PROMO- 

 TION OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. 



(Adopted August 8, 1816.) 



Section I. 



Art. 1. The association shall be denominated the " Columbian Institute for 

 the promotion of Arts and Sciences " ; and shall be composed of resident and 

 honorary members. 



Art. 2. The objects of the Institute shall be to collect, cultivate and distribute 

 the various vegetable productions of this and other countries, whether medicinal, 

 esculent, or for the promotion of arts and manufactures. 



Art. 3. To collect and examine the various mineral productions and natural 

 curiosities of the United States, and give publicity to every discovery which 

 they may have been enabled to make. 



Art. 4. To obtain information respecting the mineral waters of the United 

 States, their locality, analysis and utility ; together with such topographical 

 remarks as may aid valetudinarians. 



Art. 5. To invite communications on agricultural subjects, on the management 

 of stock, their diseases and the remedies. 



Art. 6. To form a topographical and statistical history of the different dis- 

 tricts of the United States, noticing particularly the number and extent of 

 streams, how far navigable; agricultural products, the imports and exports; the 

 value of lands ; the climate, the state of the thermometer and barometer ; the 

 diseases which prevail during the different seasons ; the state of the arts and 

 manufactures ; and any other information which may be deemed of general 

 utility. 



Art. 7. To publish annually, or whenever the Institute shall have become 

 possessed of a sufficient stock of important information, such communications 

 as may be of public utility; and to give the earliest information, in the public 

 papers, of all discoveries that may have been made by or communicated to 

 the Institute. 



Section II. 



Art. 1. The President of the United States, for the time being, shall, with 

 his permission, be considered the Patron of the Columbian Institute. 



Art. 2. The officers for managing (lie general concerns of the Institute shall 

 consist of a President, four Vice Presidents, one Secretary, one Treasurer, and 

 four Curators. 



Art. 3. There shall be a General Committee of fourteen members elected 

 annually, by ballot, on the stated meeting held on the first Monday of October, 

 to be chosen from the resident members, and styled the General Committee, 

 and the officers of the Institute shall, ex officio, be members thereof. This 

 committee, as soon as convenient after the election, shall assemble and elect 



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