86 STATUTES OF THE AMERICAN ACADEilV OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. 



CHAPTER IX. 

 Of Proceedings ox Literaey Performances. 



1. The Academy ■will never give their judgment, or opinion, upon any literary performance 

 presented to them, but allow it to rest upon its own merit, and the credit of its author. 



CHAPTER X. 

 Of Oaths. 



1. The President, Vice-President, Counsellors, Secretaries, Treasurer, Vice-Treasurer, and Keeper 

 of the Cabinet, shall each take the following oath, mutatis mutandis : 



I A. B. elected to the office of in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, do swear, 



that I will, according to my best judgment and discretion, faithfully discharge the duties of the trust 

 reposed in me. 



So help me GOD. 



