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ADVERTISEMENT. 



The folio-wing are the Rules adopted for the govern- 

 metit of Committees in the choice of papers for 

 publication. 



First. " That the grounds of the Committee's 

 u choice of papers for the press, should always be 

 " the importance or singularity of the subjects, 

 si or the advantageous maimer of treating them, 

 " without pretending to answer, or to make the 

 <e the society answerable, for the certainty of the 

 11 facts, or propriety of the reasonings, contained 

 u in the several papers so published, which must 

 " still rest on the credit or judgment of their re- 

 " spective authors. 



Secondly. "That neither the Society, nor the 

 u Committee of the press, do ever give their 

 a opinion as a body, upon any paper they may 

 " publish, or upon any subject of Art or Nature 

 "* that comes before them." 



