Vlll MAGELLANIC PREMIUM. 



ceived their report thereon, {hall, at one of their ftated meetings in 

 the month of December, annually, after the expiration of this current 

 year, (of the time and place, together with the particular occafion of 

 which meeting, due notice (hall be previoufly given, by public advertise- 

 ment) proceed to the final adjudication of the faid premium: and after 

 due confideration had, a vote (hall firft be taken on this queftion, viz. 

 Whether any of the communications then under infpe£Uon be worthy of 

 the propofed premium? If this queftion be determined in the negative, 

 the whole bufinefs (hall be deferred til! another year: but if in the affir- 

 mative, the fociety (hall proceed to determine by ballot, given by the 

 members at large, the difcovery, invention, or improvement, mod ufe- 

 ful and worthy} and that difcovery, invention, or improvement, which 

 (hall be found to have a majority of concurring votes in its favour fhall 

 be fuccefsful; and then, and not till then, the fealed letter accompany- 

 ing the crowned performance fhall be opened, and the name of the author 

 announced as the perfon entitled to the faid premium. 



7. No member of the fociety who is a candidate for the premium 

 then depending, or who hath not previoufly declared to the fociety, either 

 by word or writing, that he has confidered and weighed, according to 

 the bed of his judgment, the comparative merits of the feveral claims 

 then under confideration, fhall fit. in judgment, or give his vote in awarding 

 the faid premium. 



8. A full account of the crowned fubjeclt fhall be publifhed by the 

 fociety, as foon as may be after the adjudication, either in a feparafe 

 publication, or in the next fucceeding volume of their tranfadtions, or in 

 both. 



9. The unfuccefsful performances (hall remain under confideration, and 

 their authors be confidered as candidates for the premium, for five years 

 next fucceeding the time of their prefentment} except fuch performances 

 as their authors may, in the mean time, think fit to withdraw. And the 

 fociety fhall, annually, publifh an abftract of the titles, object: or fubje£t 

 matter of the communications fo under confideration; fuch only excepted 

 as the fociety (hall think not worthy of public notice. 



10. The letters containing the names of authors whofe performances 

 fhall be rejected, or which fhall be found unfuccefsful after a tryal of five 

 years, fhall be burnt before the fociety, without breaking the feals. 



11. In cafe there (hould be a failure, in any year, of any communi- 

 cation worthy of the propofed premium, there will then be two premiums 

 to be awarded in the next year. But no accumulation of premiums (hall 

 entitle an author to more than one premium for any one difcovery, invention, 

 or improvement. 



