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A Law to encreafe the annual Subfcriptions of the Members 
of the American P hilofophical Society held at Philadel- 
phia for promoting ufeful knowledge, and alfo to encreafe 
the Depofites of newly elected Members.on their admuyfion: 
into the faid Society. obcut Lisl 
W HEREAS the cuftomary annual payment of Tex 
Shillings from each Member of the American 
Philofophical Society, and alfo the cuftomary depofite of 
Ten Shillings by each newly elected Member, on his ad- 
miffion into the faid Society, hath been found inadequate 
to the neceflary and occafional expenditures of the Society. 
Be it therefore enacted, and it is hereby enacted by the 
American Philofophical Society, held at Philadelphia for 
promoting ufeful knowledge, by virtue of the chartered 
rights to the faid Society granted, and by authority of the 
fame, That for the future, that is to fay, from and after 
the firft of March next, the payments to be made by every 
Member of the faid Society fhall be Four Dollars annual- 
ly, and the depofite to be made by every newly elected 
Member, from and after the faid firft of March, fhall be 
Ten Dollars. And no Member who fhall be in arrear for 
his annual fubfcription or depofite, fhall be eligible to any 
office in the faid Society, or be permitted to vote at elec- 
tions, or at the ordinary meetings of the Society, until he 
fhall have fully paid up his faid arrears. 
And be it further enaéted, That no newly eleted Mem- 
ber fhall receive a certificate of his ele&tion, or be admit- 
ted as a Member of the faid Society, until he fhall have _ 
paid into the treafury the faid depofite of Ten Dollars and 
alfo his arrearages of Four Dollars per annum, if any fuch 
ghall have accrued from the time of his election. 
¢ Provided 
