276 Briii.^ In-^titufion for promoting the Five ArU. 



under siicii limitations .is ilscy shrill deem expedient, to ar- 

 tists who are not roval academicians or subscribers. 



IV. Of the Committee of Visitors. 



.\. The co;nmittec of visitors shall consist of four vice- 

 presidents, a treasurer, and twelve other members, to be 

 elected by and from among the governors ; and thre,e visi- 

 tors shall be competent to business. 



2. One vice-president, and three other members of this 

 committee, shall go out annually bv rotation ; but they may 

 be re-elecleJ, if the annual court thinks lit. 



3. The trea'^urer shall be elected annyallv. 



4. The committee of visitors shall have the power of in- 

 specting and examining the exhibition and gallery, and all 

 other parts of the institution^ and reporting their opinion 

 thereon to the general conrt. 



. 3. They shall audit and exaniine the annual accounts of 

 the institution, and report thereon, and on tlie state of the 

 institution, to the annual meeting. 



6. They shall have the power of consenting to bv-laws. 



7. They shaM make such regulations respecting their own 

 meetings and proceedings, ay they shail think tit, 



8. They shall annually elect their own chairman, and 

 deputy chairman, from their four vice-presidents, and 

 their own secretary from the, twelve other members of the 

 committee. 



V. Of the Election cf Governors, 



1. The qualification of a life governor shall be not les^ 

 than 50 guineas; and that of an hereditary governor, not 

 less than 100 sruineas. 



2. Every candidate for election as a governor, must be; 

 proposed by a director at one meeting of directors, and at 

 the nest meeting of the directors the election may take 

 place. 



3. The election of governors shall be by ballot, if re- 

 quired ; and no person can be elected, unless two-thirds at 

 least of the directors present vote in favour of his election. 



4. In case the person so elected shr.ll not pav in h's qua- 

 lification before h's election, or within one kalendar mouth 

 after, sugh election shall be absolutely void. 



5. In case any person, who shall have paid in his quali- 

 fication as a governor, shall not be elected, he shall have his 

 qualification repaid him, if he shall require it at any time 

 within two kalendar months after he shall liavc notice that 

 he is not elected. 



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