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2. Persons of any nation, sect, or denomination what- 

 ever, shall be admitted as candidates for this premium. 



3. No discovery, invention, or improvement shall be 

 entitled to this premium, which hath already been pub- 

 lished, or for Avhich the author hath been publicly re- 

 warded elsewhere. 



4. The candidate shall communicate his discovery, 

 invention, or improvement, either in the English, French^ 

 German, or Latin language. 



5. All such communications shall be publicly read 

 or exhibited to the Society, at some stated meeting, not 

 less than one month previous to the day of adjudication; 

 and shall at all times be open to the inspection of such 

 members as shall desire it. But no member shall carry 

 home with him the communication, description, or mo- 

 del, except the officer to whom it shall be intrusted; nor 

 shall such officer part with the same out of his custody, 

 without a special order of the Society for that purpose. 



6. The Society having previously referred the several 

 communications from candidates for the premium then 

 depending to the consideration of the twelve counsellors, 

 and other officers of the society, and having received 

 their report thereon, shall, at one of their stated meetings 

 iji the month of December, annually, after the expiration 

 of this cuiTcnt year (of the time and place, together with 

 the particular occasion of which meeting, due notice shall 

 be previously given, by public advertisement), proceed 

 to the final adjudication of the said premium : and after 



