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due consideration had, a vote shall first be taken on this 

 question, viz. Whether any of the communications then 

 under inspection be worthy of the proposed premium ? 

 K this question be determined in the negative, the whole 

 business shall be deferred till another year ; but if in the 

 affirmative, the Society shall proceed to determine, by 

 ballot, given by the members at large, the discovery, in- 

 vention, or improvement, most useful and worthy ; and 

 that discovery, invention, or improvement, which shall 

 be found to have a majority of concurring votes in its 

 favour shall be successful ; and then, and not till then, 

 the sealed letter accompanying the crowned performance 

 shall be opened, and the name of the author announced 

 as the person entitled to the said premium. 



7. No member of the Society, who is a candidate for 

 the premium then depending, or who hath not previously 

 declared to the Society, either by word or writing, that 

 he has considered and weighed, according to the best of 

 his judgment, the comparative merits of the several 

 claims then under consideration, shall sit in judgment, 

 or give his vote in awarding the said premium. 



8. A full account of the crowned subject shall be pub- 

 lished by the Society, as soon as may be after the adju- 

 dication, either in a separate publication, or in the next 

 succeeding volume of their Transactions, or in both. 



9. The unsuccessful performances shall remain under 

 consideration, and their authors be considered as candi- 

 dates for the premium, for five years next succeeding the 

 time of their presentment ; except such performances as 



