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ferve asa bafis for a new arrangement. The academy, after 
having maturely weighed them, will make the application 
of them in detail, and will draw up articles of regulation, 
which it will take care to lay before me to receive my ap- 
probation and fignature. 
The ancient regulations of the academy, above ail that of 
the year 1746, will be retained, and put in force fo far as 
they are not abrogated by the new. 
I fhall take care to appoint a prefident diftinguifhed by his 
rank and literary ialents. His duty, above all, being to 
maintain the eftablifhed order, to concentrate and direé the 
labours and talents of the different members towards objeéts 
ufeful to the public and honourable to the academy, to 
watch over the adminiftration of its finances, and be its 
organ with my perfon, it will be neceffary to fix the extent 
and limits of his functions by an exprefs article. 
The economical commiffion of the academy, which, has 
hitherto fubfifted, fhall be abolithed, and its place fupplied by 
a direGtory *.. The members who compoied the commul- 
fion fhall, however be maintained in the enjoyment of their 
penfions, 
The direétory fhall be sae of a prefident, the four di- 
rectors + of the clafles, and twomembers, to be chofennot fram 
the academy, but men of bufinefs, equally diftinguifhed by 
their literary merit, and capable of preferving the neceffary. 
order in the economical ftate of the academy. I propofe for 
filling thefe places, Suarez { privy counfellor of juftice, and 
_Borgftede § privy counfellor of finances, who at the fame 
time will be elected members of the academy. 
»Eyery thing which relates to the general dire@tion of the 
weet as a body, to the maintenance of internal order, 
* The ex-minifter J, Ch. Wo'lner affifted at the fitting of March 29) as 
chief of the economic commiffion for the laft time. 
+H. B. Merian, J. Bernoulli, F. K. Achard, and Ch, G. Selle. 
= Died on the 14th May 1798. 
w Inftalled in the fitting of May 3. 
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