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not be admitted, his name shall be removed from the nomination- 
list; but may at any future period be placed upon it again for a 
new nomination. 
2. Each Fellow residing in the state of Massachusetts shall 
pay annually two dollars to the Academy. 
CHAP. VIII. 
On Laterary Performances. 
1. The Academy will never express its judgment on literary 
performances or memoirs submitted to it. 
2. The President, Vice-President, and Secretaries, with such 
others as the Academy may think fit to join, shall constitute a 
Committee of Publications, to which Committee all memoirs 
submitted to the Academy shall be referred. 
RUMFORD PREMIUM. 
In conformity with the last Will of Benjamin Count Rum- 
ford, granting a certain fund to the American Academy of Arts 
and Sciences, and of a decree of the Supreme Judicial Court 
for carrying into effect the general charitable intent and purpose 
of Count Rumford, as expressed in his said Will, the Academy 
is empowered to make from the income of said fund, as it now 
exists, at any annual meeting, award of a gold and silver medal, 
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