30 TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE. 



articles or subjects presented will receive the attention and 

 examination of the respective Clubs. 



The late date at which this circular was issued, and the public 

 mind being almost exclusively occupied with the existing national 

 troubles, inventors, manufacturers and others did not so promptly 

 respond to the invitation held out to them as the managers had 

 hoped would be the case. But within the last two weeks a num- 

 ber of applications have been made to compete for the premiums, 

 and your managers, at a meeting held on the 29th of January, 

 resolved to extend the time for the reception of apjjlications to 

 the 5th day of February inst. 



Under these circumstances the Board of Managers ask the 

 Institute that they may be discharged from all further conside- 

 ration of this subject after the 13th inst., and that the whole 

 subject matter relating to the premiums be referred to the new 

 Board of Managers. 



KespectfuUy submitted, 



JAMES 0. BALDWIN, WM. S. CARPENTER, 



WM. H. BUTLER, GEORGE PEYTON, 



WM. EBBITT, JAMES KNIGHT, 



THOMAS F. DE VOE, GYRUS MASON, 



JOHN V. BROWER, WM. COTHEAL, 



GEORGE TIMPSON, HENRY STEELE, 



JOHN JOHNSON, GEORGE M. WOODWARD, 



THOS. WILLIAMS, Jr., GEO. R. JACKSON, 



ANDREW BRIDGEMAN, JOHN D. JERSEY, 



JOHN B. PECK, CHAS. PERLEY, 



ISAAC M. PHYFE, CLARKSON CROLIUS, 



T. F. ENGELBRECHT, CHAS. A. WHITNEY, 

 THOMAS McELRATH, 



Managers. 



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New York, February 5, 1862. 



