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STANDING VOTES 



1. Communications of which notice has been given to either of the 

 Secretaries shall take precedence of those not so notified. 



2. Fellows may take from the Library six volumes at any one time, 

 and may retain them for three months, and no longer. 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. 



3. Works published in numbers, when unbound, shall not be taken 

 from the Hall of the Academy without the leave of the Librarian. 



RUMFORD PREMIUM 



In conformity with the terms of the gift of Sir Benjamin Thompson, 

 Count Rumford, of a certain Fund to the American Academy of Arts 

 and Sciences, and with a decree of the Supreme Judicial Court of 

 Massachusetts for carrying into effect the general charitable intent and 

 purpose of Count Rumford, as expressed in his letter of gift, the Acad- 

 emy is empowered to make from the income of the Rumford Fund, as 

 it now exists, at any Annual Meeting, an award of a gold and a silver 

 medal, being together of the intrinsic value of three hundred dollars, 

 as a Premium to the author of any important discovery or useful 

 improvement in light or heat, which shall have been made and pub- 

 lished by printing, or in any way made known to the public, in any 

 part of the continent of America, or any of the American Islands ; 

 preference always being given to such discoveries as, in the opinion of 

 the Academy, shall tend most to promote the good of mankind ; and, 

 if the Academy sees fit, to add to such medals, as a further Premium 

 for such discovery and improvement, a sum of money not exceeding 

 three hundred dollars. 



