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sjenerally by tlie original texts, and sucli illustrations as may be considered necessary. 

 These translations are to be generally printed in English, but in peculiar cases 

 may be printed in Latin or French. 



3d. The Committee is empowered to add to its number, to purchase Oriental MSS. 

 or printed books, to present copies of the works pi-inted at the expense of the Oriental 

 Translation Fund to learned Societies and individuals, and to adopt all the means that 

 it may consider to be necessary for executing the plan developed in the Prospectus. 

 No payment, however, exceeding twenty-five ])ounds, is to be made until approved at 

 two successive Meetings of the Committee. 



4th. The Meetings of the Committee will be held as often as the Chairman or 

 Secretar}', or any two other Members of it, signing a requisition for that purpose, 

 deem it necessary. All the Members of the Committee resident within one hundred 

 miles of London, are to be summoned to attend each of its Meetings; and five 

 Members, including the Chairman or a Deputy Chairman, and the Secretary, are 

 to constitute a quorum. 



5th. The Secretary is charged generally with the business of the Committee, and is 

 to record all the votes of the Committee in a Minute-Book, which every Subscriber 

 has the right of inspecting on application to him. 



6tli. For the purpose of directing the attention of scholars to the literature of the 

 East, and encouraging translations, the Committee is empowered to give annually, for 

 such works as it may consider deserving of distinction, four rewards in money, in sums 

 of from £50 to £100 each, and four gold medals of the value of fifteen guineas each, 

 inscribed with the names of the individuals to whom they are presented. Any Member 

 of the Committee who sends a work for approval, whether to obtain a reward or medal, 

 or merely to have it printed at the expense of the Oriental Translation Fund, is to 

 cease to act on the Committee until the adoption or rejection of his work is decided on. 



7th. No work, although prepared for the press at the expense of the Oriental 

 Translation Fund, is to be printed, until the imprimatur of the Chairman or a 

 Deputy Chairman, and at least twelve Members of the Committee, is obtained. 



8th. Every individual or institution subscribing ten guineas or upwards annually to 

 the Oriental Translation Fund, will be entitled to one hne-paper copy of every work 

 translated and printed by the Committee, with the name of the individual or institution 

 subscribing printed on the back of the title-page. 



Individuals or institutions subscribing five guineas annually, will be entitled to any 

 of the works published by the Committee, to the amount of their subscriptions, at 

 half the price paid for them by Non-subscribers. 



9lh. A General Meeting of the .Subscribers will be held on the first Wednesday in 

 Febriiary, May, August, and November ; and a Special General Meeting shall be 

 convened by tlie Secretary at any time it is requireu in writing by nine Subscribers, 

 the requisition stating the subject that is to be proposed for consideration. 



10th. A General Meeting will be held annually on the first Wednesday in Maj', to 

 which every Subscriber anil Member of the Committee resident in the United Kingdom 

 will be summoned. At that meeting Regulations may be proposed or rescinded ; the 

 Auditor will report the receipts and disbursements of the past year ; and the Secretary 

 report the progress made in the works that have been commenced, and give an account 

 of those that are proposed for publication in the following year. A copy of each of 

 these Reports will be sent to every Subscriber. 



