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and improvements, which may merit tlie premiums so as aforesaid to be by them awarded. And the books, 

 papers, and apparatus so purchased shall be used, and such lectures, experiments, and investigations be 

 delivered and made, either in the said Academy or elsewhere, as the complainants shall think best adapted 

 to promote such discoveries and improvements as aforesaid ; and either by the Rumford Professor of Harvard 

 University, or by any other person or persons, as to the complainants shall from time to time seem best. 



"And it is further ordered, adjudged, and decreed, that the said fund, or any part thereof, may be from 

 time to tune inve.stod by the said complainants either in notes, stocks, or debts of the United States, or of the 

 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, or of the City of Boston, or in stock of the Bank of the United States, or 

 of any bank in this Commonwealth, or in notes or bonds secured by pledge of any of said stocks, or by 

 mortgage of real estate in this Commonwealth, or may be deposited in trust, and on interest, with the 

 Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company." 



